Bound vs Traverse - What's the difference?
bound | traverse |
(bind)
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, 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).
(climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
(military) In fortification, a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops against enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the parapet.
(surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
(obsolete) A screen or partition.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Court :
* F. Beaumont
Something that thwarts or obstructs.
A trick; a subterfuge.
(architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
(legal) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
(nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
(geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
(firearms) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
* Alexander Pope
(computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
(artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
(climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle.
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
* Dryden
To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct.
* Sir Walter Scott
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
* South
(carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
(legal) To deny formally.
* Dryden
Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
* Sir H. Wotton
* Hayward
As verbs the difference between bound and traverse
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 traverse is .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 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 fortraverse
English
Noun
(en noun)- Than sholde ye see there pressynge in a pace / Of one and other that wolde this lady see, / Whiche sat behynde a traves of sylke fyne, / Of golde of tessew the fynest that myghte be
- At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn.
- He would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
- (Gwilt)
Verb
- He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
- what seas you traversed , and what fields you fought
- to traverse all nodes in a network
- to traverse a cannon
- The parts should be often traversed , or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.
- I cannot but admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse .
- My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice — ingratitude.
- to traverse a board
- And save the expense of long litigious laws, / Where suits are traversed , and so little won / That he who conquers is but last undone.
Adjective
(en adjective)- paths cut with traverse trenches
- Oak being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.
- the ridges of the fallow field traverse
