What is the meaning of bound?

noun

• A line determining the limits of an area.
  • synonyms: boundary, edge
• The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something.
  • synonyms: boundary, bounds
• The greatest possible degree of something.
  • usage: "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
  • synonyms: limit, boundary
• A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards.
  • synonyms: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bounce

verb

• Stick to firmly.
  • usage: "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall"
  • synonyms: adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to
• Create social or emotional ties.
  • usage: "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
  • synonyms: bind, tie, attach, bond
• Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope.
  • usage: "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
  • synonyms: bind
• Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose.
  • synonyms: bind, bandage
• Secure with or as if with ropes.
  • usage: "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"
  • synonyms: tie down, tie up, bind, truss
• Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.
  • usage: "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
  • synonyms: oblige, bind, hold, obligate
• Provide with a binding.
  • usage: "bind the books in leather"
  • synonyms: bind
• Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.
  • usage: "They tied their victim to the chair"
  • synonyms: tie, bind
• Form a chemical bond with.
  • usage: "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
  • synonyms: bind
• Cause to be constipated.
  • usage: "These foods tend to constipate you"
  • synonyms: constipate, bind
• Move forward by leaps and bounds.
  • usage: "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence"
  • synonyms: jump, leap, spring
• Form the boundary of; be contiguous to.
  • synonyms: border
• Place limits on (extent or access. )
  • usage: "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
  • synonyms: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, confine, throttle
• Spring back; spring away from an impact.
  • usage: "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
  • synonyms: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet

adjective

• Confined by bonds.
  • usage: "bound and gagged hostages"
• Held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union.
• Secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form.
  • usage: "bound volumes"; "leather-bound volumes"
• Usually followed by `to'. ( governed by fate)
  • usage: "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous"
  • synonyms: destined
• Covered or wrapped with a bandage.
  • usage: "the bandaged wound on the back of his head"; "an injury bound in fresh gauze"
  • synonyms: bandaged
• Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'.
  • usage: "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York"
  • synonyms: destined
• Bound by an oath.
  • usage: "a bound official"
• Bound by contract.
  • synonyms: apprenticed, articled, indentured
• Confined in the bowels.
  • usage: "he is bound in the belly"