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boundness

/bound/US // baʊnd //UK // (baʊnd) //

边界性,界限性,边界,边界度

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : simple past tense and past participle of bind.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tied; in bonds: a bound prisoner.
    • : made fast as if by a band or bond: She is bound to her family.
    • : secured within a cover, as a book.
    • : under a legal or moral obligation: He is bound by the terms of the contract.
    • : destined; sure; certain: It is bound to happen.
    • : determined or resolved: He is bound to go.
    • : Pathology. constipated.
    • : Mathematics. having a specified initial point as well as magnitude and direction.Compare free.
    • : held with another element, substance, or material in chemical or physical union.
    • : occurring only in combination with other forms, as most affixes.Compare free.

Phrases

  • bound and determined to
  • bound for
  • bound hand and foot
  • bound to, be
  • bound up in
  • by leaps and bounds
  • duty bound
  • honor bound
  • out of bounds
  • within bounds

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inresponsibility

Examples

  • Some are afraid their homes are at risk if a fire escapes its bounds, or that the smoke will harm their health.

  • What’s more, our awareness of exactly what’s lurking out there has advanced by leaps and bounds—especially when it comes to the largest, most dangerous objects in our neighborhood.

  • This means all the energy available to support life was historically bounded by the supply provided by photosynthetic organisms.

  • Though Deep Blue was meticulously programmed top-to-bottom to play chess, the approach was too labor-intensive, too dependent on clear rules and bounded possibilities to succeed at more complex games, let alone in the real world.

  • The neighborhood is bounded by University Boulevard, Cheery Creek, Downing Street, and 8th street.

  • That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

  • They were born in 51 countries and speak 59 foreign languages, but they seemed bound by a single purpose and resolve.

  • Bound together by mutual distrust, both sides end up lashing themselves to the mast of rigid law.

  • From 2012 to 2013, 31 men left Aarhus bound for combat in Syria.

  • That is bound to put a dent in public confidence in the police.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • A good many children seem to be like savages in distinguishing those to whom one is bound to speak the truth.

  • These officers are bound to maintayne themselves and families with food and rayment by their owne and their servant's industrie.

  • A flock of weary sheep pattered along the road, barnward bound, heavy eyed and bleating softly.