plural of bound.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bound

A surname.

simple past tense and past participle of bind

(with infinitive) Obliged (to). / (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word. / (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier. / (dated) Constipated; costive.

(obsolete) Ready, prepared. / Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of). / (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to

(often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. / (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.

To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of. / (transitive, mathematics) To be the bound of.

A sizeable jump, great leap. / A spring from one foot to the other in dancing. / (dated) A bounce; a rebound.

(intransitive) To leap, move by jumping. / (transitive) To cause to leap. / (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.