governed English
Verb
(head)
(govern)
govern English
Verb
( en verb)
To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- Govern yourselves like civilized people.
- a student who could not govern his impulses.
To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- a valve that governs fuel intake.
To exercise political authority; to run a government.
To have or exercise a determining influence.
To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
Related terms
* government
* governance
* governor
* governess
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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
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