0 certain or extremely likely to happen:
[ + to infinitive ] You're bound to forget people's names occasionally.
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.
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 archivist says the new documents are contained in a single bound volume.
3 going to:
4 to move quickly with large jumping movements
6 past simple and past participle of bind
9 travelling in the stated direction:
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:
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.
Several of the prisoners had been bound.
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%.
Finally, we shall approximate this system of recurrence equations by a system of ordinary differential equations whose solution provides us with the bounds mentioned above.
Moreover, we provide complexity bounds for the problem in question and sketch a possible implementation method making use of dedicated systems for checking ordinary equivalence.
She takes the broadest of views, including any discrete carbonate structure with topographic relief formed by in situ or bound organic components.
Employing the upper bound in turn drops both sets of returns by only 15 per cent.
As speakers and listeners use particular lexical, semantic, and syntactic representations, some of these representations become bound into routines.
Note, however, that our numerical bounds frequently get better if multiple edges are replaced by a single equivalent edge.
Moreover, for random local search the bound has been verified.
In the case of random walks in convex bodies, we show that this new bound is better than the known bounds for the worst case.
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