Dictionary

To tie; to confine by any ligature.

To cohere or stick together in a mass.

Example: Just to make the cheese more binding

To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

Example: I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while.

To exert a binding or restraining influence.

Example: These are the ties that bind.

(with infinitive) Obliged (to).

Example: You are not legally bound to reply.

(of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.

(of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.

Constipated; costive.

Ready, prepared.

Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

Example: Is that message bound for me?

(with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to

Example: They were bound to come into conflict eventually.

(often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.

Example: I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.

A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.

To surround a territory or other geographical entity.

Example: France, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra bound Spain.

To be the boundary of.

A sizeable jump, great leap.

Example: The deer crossed the stream in a single bound.

A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.

A bounce; a rebound.

Example: the bound of a ball

To leap, move by jumping.

Example: The rabbit bounded down the lane.

To cause to leap.

Example: to bound a horse

To rebound; to bounce.

Example: a rubber ball bounds on the floor

To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.

Example: to bound a ball on the floor