Bound vs Bob - What's the difference?

Bound is a related term of bob.

As nouns the difference between bound and bob

is that bound is (often|used in plural) a boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory or bound can be a sizeable jump, great leap while bob is broad bean, horse bean.

As a verb bound

is (bind) or bound can be to surround a territory or other geographical entity or bound can be to leap, move by jumping.

As an adjective bound

is (with infinitive) obliged (to) or bound can be (obsolete) ready, prepared.

bound

English

Alternative forms

* bownd (archaic)

Etymology 1

See bind

Verb

(head)

(bind)

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound , on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}

''I bound the splint to my leg.

''I had bound the splint with duct tape.

Adjective

(-)

(with infinitive) Obliged (to).

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=5 citation , passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.}}

(with infinitive) Very likely (to).

* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

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

(mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.

(dated) constipated; costive

Antonyms

* free

Derived terms

* bound to * I'll be bound

Etymology 2

From (etyl) bounde, from (etyl) bunne, from

Noun

(en noun)

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

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

Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.

(mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values

Derived terms

* boundary * boundless * harmonic bounding * least upper bound * lower bound * metes and bounds * out of bounds * upper bound * within bounds

Verb

(en verb)

To surround a territory or other geographical entity.

''France, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra bound Spain.

''Kansas is bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south and Colorado on the west.

(mathematics) To be the boundary of.

Derived terms

* unbound * unbounded

Etymology 3

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A sizeable jump, great leap.

''The deer crossed the stream in a single bound .

A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.

(dated) A bounce; a rebound.

the bound of a ball

(Johnson)

Derived terms

* by leaps and bounds

Verb

(en verb)

To leap, move by jumping.

''The rabbit bounded down the lane.

To cause to leap.

to bound a horse

(Shakespeare)

(dated) To rebound; to bounce.

a rubber ball bounds on the floor

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

to bound a ball on the floor

Derived terms

* rebound

Etymology 4

Alteration of boun , with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1, above.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) ready, prepared.

ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

''Which way are you bound ?

''Is that message bound for me?

Derived terms

* -bound * bound for

Statistics

* English contranyms English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms English terms with multiple etymologies

bob

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(bobb)

To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water.

The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.

The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.

To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.

I bobbed my head under water and saw the goldfish.

bob''' one's head'' (= to ' nod )

To curtsy.

To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

* Elyot

He was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.

Derived terms

* bobber * bob for apples * bob up

Noun

(en noun)

A bobbing motion.

a bob of the head

A bobber.

* Lauson

Or yellow bobs turn'd up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.

A curtsy.

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

A bob haircut.

Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it

* 1773 ,

Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.

The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.

The docked tail of a horse.

A short line ending a stanza of a poem.

The short runner of a sled.

A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

A working beam in a steam engine.

A particular style of ringing changes on bells.

A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

(obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

* Shenstone

A plain brown bob he wore.

(obsolete) The refrain of a song.

* L'Estrange

To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.

(obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.

* Shakespeare

He that a fool doth very wisely hit, / Doth very foolishly, although he smart, / Not to seem senseless of the bob .

Verb

(bobb)

To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.

I got my hair bobbed . How do you like it?

To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop

Short form of bobsleigh

Etymology 3

Noun

(bob)

A shilling.

* , Episode 12, The Cyclops

One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob .

:1933 , (George Orwell), (Down and Out in Paris and London) , xxix

::‘’Ere]] s for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a [['og, ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’

* 1960 , , (Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter XVII

A 10-cent coin.

(slang) An unspecified amount of money.

* Spot me a few bob , Robert.

Derived terms

* bob-a-job * bent as a nine-bob note * two-bob bit

Usage notes

* The use of bob for shilling is dated slang in the UK and Australia, since decimalisation. In East African countries where the currency is the shilling, it is current usage, and not considered slang. OED gives first usage as 1789. * The use of bob to describe a 10-cent coin is derived from the fact that it was of equal worth to a shilling during decimalisation, however since then, the term has slowly dropped out of usage and is seldom used today.

Etymology 4

Noun

(en noun)

Etymology 5

(blitter) (object)

Noun

(en noun)

(computer graphics) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.

* 1986 , Eugene P Mortimore, Amiga programmer's handbook, Volumes 1-2

The bob list determines the drawing priority...

* 1995 , "John Girvin", Blitting bobs'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.amiga.programmer )

IMHO, youd (SIC) be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs , esp on a machine with fast ram.

* 2002 , "demoeffects", Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene.'' (on Internet newsgroup ''fm.announce )

Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code...

Derived terms

* shadebob

Anagrams

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