Bound vs Captured - What's the difference?
bound | captured |
(bind)
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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, chapter=1 (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=5 (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
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, title= (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
(mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
(dated) constipated; costive
(often, used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
(mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values
To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
(mathematics) To be the boundary of.
A sizeable jump, great leap.
A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
(dated) A bounce; a rebound.
To leap, move by jumping.
To cause to leap.
(dated) To rebound; to bounce.
(dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
(obsolete) ready, prepared.
ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
(capture)
An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
* Blackstone
The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
Something that has been captured; a captive.
(computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
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To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
To reproduce convincingly.
To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
* 1954 , Fred Reinfeld, How to Be a Winner at Chess , page 63, Hanover House (Garden City, NY)
As verbs the difference between bound and captured
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 captured is (capture).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
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Alternative forms
* bownd (archaic)Etymology 1
See bindVerb
(head)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
(-)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.}}
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.}}
Antonyms
* freeDerived terms
* bound to * I'll be boundEtymology 2
From (etyl) bounde, from (etyl) bunne, fromNoun
(en noun)- 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.
Derived terms
* boundary * boundless * harmonic bounding * least upper bound * lower bound * metes and bounds * out of bounds * upper bound * within boundsVerb
(en verb)- ''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.
Derived terms
* unbound * unboundedEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- ''The deer crossed the stream in a single bound .
- the bound of a ball
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* by leaps and boundsVerb
(en verb)- ''The rabbit bounded down the lane.
- to bound a horse
- (Shakespeare)
- a rubber ball bounds on the floor
- to bound a ball on the floor
Derived terms
* reboundEtymology 4
Alteration of boun , with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1, above.Adjective
(en adjective)- ''Which way are you bound ?
- ''Is that message bound for me?
Derived terms
* -bound * bound forcaptured
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*capture
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Noun
(en noun)- even with regard to captures made at sea
- the capture of a lover's heart
Verb
- to capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal
Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
- She captured the sounds of a subway station on tape.
- She captured the details of the fresco in a series of photographs.
- His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.
- In her latest masterpiece, she captured the essence of Venice.
- My pawn was captured .
- He captured his opponent’s queen on the 15th move.
- How deeply ingrained capturing is in the mind of a chess master can be seen from this story.