Bound vs March - What's the difference?
bound | march |
(bind)
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, chapter=1 (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
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, chapter=5 (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
* , chapter=5
, 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).
A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
A political rally or parade
Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see )
Steady forward movement or progression.
(euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
To cause someone to walk somewhere.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1967
, first = Barbara
, last = Sleigh
, authorlink = Barbara Sleigh
, title = (Jessamy)
, edition = 1993
, location = Sevenoaks, Kent
, publisher=Bloomsbury
, isbn = 0 340 19547 9
, page = 84
, url =
, passage = The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house.
}}
To go to war; to make military advances.
A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
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(label) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
* 1819 , (Lord Byron), , IV:
To have common borders or frontiers
(obsolete) Smallage.
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.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.As a proper noun march is
the third month of the gregorian calendar, following february and preceding april abbreviation: mar' or ' .bound
English
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 formarch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Akin to (etyl) mearc'', ''?emearc "mark, boundary".Noun
(es)- the march of time
Synonyms
* (steady forward movement or progression) process * (political rally) protest, parade, rally * (steady forward movement) advancement, progressionDerived terms
* countermarch * dead march * death march * double march * force-march * forced march * freedom march * frog-march, frog march, frog's march * funeral march * gain a march on, get a march on * grand march * hour of march * in a full march * in march * Jacksonian march * Jarvis march * line of march * make a march * march haemoglobinuria, march hemoglobinuria * march-on * march-order * march out * march-past * march-time * march tumor, march tumour * march to a different drummer * march to the beat of a different drum * minute of march * on a march * on the march * outmarch * rogue's march * route march, route-march, routemarch * slow march * snowball marches * steal a march * wedding marchVerb
(es)Derived terms
* dismarch * marcher * marching * march off * march on * march to the beat of a different drum * outmarch * overmarch * remarchEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(es)- Therefore, sir, be my counsayle, rere up your lyege peple and sende kynges and dewkes to loke unto your marchis , and that the mountaynes of Almayne be myghtyly kepte.
- Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona.