bound Значение & определение

Значение на bound на български

• 0 certain or extremely likely to happen:

  • [ + to infinitive ] You're bound to forget people's names occasionally.

  • You're bound to feel nervous about your interview.

  • These two young musicians are bound for international success (= are certain to be successful).

  • They are bound and determined to build their own house someday.

  • He's in the pub, I'll be bound.

• 1 having a moral or legal duty to do something:

  • The company is bound by a special agreement to involve the union in important decisions.

  • She feels (duty)-bound to tell him everything.

• 2 tied with rope, cord, string, etc.:

  • They left Jack, bound hand and foot, and guarded by one man.

  • His long brown braid bounced between his shoulders, and moisture formed and froze on the bound hair.

  • The security guard was found bound and gagged after the robbery.

  • The book was bound in shiny green leather.

  • The archivist says the new documents are contained in a single bound volume.

• 3 going to:

  • She was on a plane bound for Moscow when she got sick.

• 4 to move quickly with large jumping movements

• 5 to mark or form the limits of:

  • The town is bounded on one side by a river.

• 6 past simple and past participle of bind

• 7 a quick, long jump:

  • With one bound the dog was over the fence.

• 8 legal or social limits:

  • The committee felt that newspaper coverage of the murder went beyond reasonable bounds.

  • What you did was beyond/outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour.

  • His desire for political power apparently knows no bounds (= seems to be unlimited).

• 9 travelling in the stated direction:

  • Northbound traffic is moving very slowly because of the accident.

  • US The line did not close completely, but inbound and outbound trains (= trains which were arriving and leaving) had to share one of the two tracks near the station.

• 10 (causing people to be) unable to leave a place because of an unwanted condition:

  • During his long illness he was completely housebound (= he could not leave the house).

  • She has been wheelchair-bound for several years.

  • The airport was completely fogbound (= covered by fog).

• 11 used to describe a book that is covered or held together in the stated way:

  • a leather-bound book

  • a spiral-bound notebook

  • leather-bound cuffs

• 12 past simple and past participle of bind

• 13 certain or extremely likely to happen:

  • [ + to infinitive ] You’re bound to feel nervous about your interview.

• 14 tied tightly or fastened:

  • Several of the prisoners had been bound.

• 15 having a moral or legal duty to do something:

  • She is not legally bound to pay the debts, but she has agreed to do it anyway.

• 16 traveling in the direction of:

  • She was on a plane bound for Fairbanks.

  • fig. These two young musicians are bound for success.

• 17 to mark or form the limits of:

  • The town is bounded on one side by a river.

• 18 to move quickly with large, jumping movements:

  • A deer bounded across the road.

• 19 a quick, large jump:

  • With one bound the dog was over the fence.

• 20 having a legal duty to do something:

  • be bound to do sth Because of international treaty obligations, the Government is legally bound to consider every asylum claim.

  • be bound by sth Many government agencies are bound by a federal order to adequately serve speakers of other languages or risk losing funding.

• 21 kept at or below an agreed or allowed level:

  • a bound level/rate/tariff Overall, the percentage of developed countries' imports of industrial goods under bound rates rose from 94% to 99%.