Definitions for Bounds

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Bounds bound

Spelling: [bound]

IPA: /baʊnd/

Bounds is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in Bounds (bdnosu).

Definitions for Bounds

noun

1. a leap onward or upward; jump.
2. a rebound; bounce.
3. Usually, bounds. limit or boundary:
4. something that limits, confines, or restrains.
5. bounds. territories on or near a boundary. land within boundary lines.
6. Mathematics. a number greater than or equal to, or less than or equal to, all the numbers in a given set. Compare greatest lower bound, least upper bound, lower bound, upper bound.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bind.

Idioms

1. bound up in / with, inseparably connected with. devoted or attached to:
2. out of bounds, beyond the official boundaries, prescribed limits, or restricted area: forbidden; prohibited:

adjective

1. tied; in bonds:
2. made fast as if by a band or bond:
3. secured within a cover, as a book.
4. under a legal or moral obligation:
5. destined; sure; certain:
6. determined or resolved:
7. Pathology. constipated.
8. Mathematics. (of a vector) having a specified initial point as well as magnitude and direction. Compare free (def 32).
9. held with another element, substance, or material in chemical or physical union.
10. (of a linguistic form) occurring only in combination with other forms, as most affixes. Compare free (def 35).

verb (used with object)

1. to limit by or as if by bounds; keep within limits or confines.
2. to form the boundary or limit of.
3. to name or list the boundary of.

verb (used without object)

1. to move by leaps; leap; jump; spring:
2. to rebound, as a ball; bounce:
3. to abut.

Origin of Bounds

past participle and past tense of bind

Examples for Bounds

Well, well, youth's the season for silliness, but there's bounds—there's bounds.

If it was the United States, the operation will test the bounds of international law.

Inside the quarantine zone, even more specific procedures were outlined to keep those within the bounds of it safe.

Cosby is hardly the first star to step outside the bounds of marriage.

If the operation caused no physical damage, it would be in bounds.

Thanks to George no topic is out of bounds, no language is off limits.

Have you no bounds beyond which even your indecent curiosity must not go?

This was an advance by leaps and bounds which has not since been maintained.

The pride and ambition of the Syracusans now knew no bounds.

Within the bounds of possibility, their turn to stumble might now be imminent.