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* {{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).
(of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=
, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
Loyal, faithful.
Genuine.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=(Henry Petroski), volume=100, issue=1, page=16, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= Legitimate.
Accurate; following a path toward the target.
* {{quote-journal, year=1801, author=Mrs. Cowley
, title=The siege of Acre, journal=The British Critic, volume=17-18?, page=521
, passage=Whate'er the weapon, still his aim was true , Nor e'er in vain the fatal bullet flew.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Carl Hiaasen
, title=The downhill lie: a hacker's return to a ruinous sport, page=188
, passage=I held my breath and struck the ball. My aim was true , but I didn't give the damn thing enough gas. It died three feet from the cup.}}
* 1990 , William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis , ISBN 0201159112, page 8:
Accurately.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= Truth.
The state of being in alignment.
* 1904 , Lester Gray French, Machinery , Volume 10:
* 1922 , , '' in ''(Tales of the Jazz Age) :
* 1988 , (Lois McMaster Bujold), (Falling Free) , Baen Publishing, ISBN 0-671-65398-9, page 96:
* 1994 , Bruce Palmer, How to Restore Your Harley-Davidson :
To straighten.
To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
to threaten
In lang=en terms the difference between bound and true
is that bound is a bounce; a rebound while true is of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.As verbs the difference between bound and true
is that bound is past tense of bind while true is to straighten.As adjectives the difference between bound and true
is that bound is obliged (to) while true is conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.As nouns the difference between bound and true
is that bound is a boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory while true is truth.As an adverb true is
accurately.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 fortrue
English
Adjective
(er)The China Governess, chapter=20
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
- making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time
The Washington Monument, passage=The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a “true' obelisk,” even though it is not. A ' true obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.}}
- Let be twice the value of a true die shown on the -th toss.
Antonyms
* false * untrueDerived terms
* come true * ring true * show one's true stripes * to thine own self be true * true believer * true blue * true bug * true colors * True Cross * true daikon * true density * true frog * true-heart * true leaf * true love * true name * true north/True North * true or false/true-or-false * true seal * true stripesAdverb
(-)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Noun
- Some toolmakers are very careless when drilling the first hole through work that is to be bored, claiming that if the drilled hole comes out of true somewhat it can be brought true with the boring tool.
- She clapped her hands happily, and he thought how pretty she was really, that is, the upper part of her face—from the bridge of the nose down she was somewhat out of true .
- The crate shifted on its pallet, out of sync now. As the lift withdrew, the crate skidded with it, dragged by friction and gravity, skewing farther and farther from true .
- The strength and number of blows depends on how far out of true the shafts are.
Derived terms
* in true * out of trueVerb
- He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel.
- We spent all night truing up the report.