Bound vs Bordered - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between bound and bordered

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

As an adjective bound

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

As a noun 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.

bound

English

Alternative forms

* bownd (archaic)

Etymology 1

See bind

Verb

(head)

(bind)

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''I bound the splint to my leg.

''I had bound the splint with duct tape.

Adjective

(-)

(with infinitive) Obliged (to).

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(with infinitive) Very likely (to).

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(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

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bordered

English

Verb

(head)

(border)

border

English

(wikipedia border)

Noun

(en noun)

The outer edge of something.

the borders of the garden

* Bentham

upon the borders of these solitudes

* Barrow

in the borders of death

A decorative strip around the edge of something.

A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.

The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.

* 2013 , Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian , 1 May 2013)

The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.

(British) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.

Derived terms

* borderlinking * borderspace, borderspacing

Verb

(en verb)

To put a border on something.

To lie on, or adjacent to a border.

Denmark borders Germany to the south.

To touch at a border (with on'' or ''upon ).

Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

To approach; to come near to; to verge.

* Archbishop Tillotson

Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.

Derived terms

* border on * cross-border 1000 English basic words ----