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Speed is a related term of bound.


As a proper noun speed

is .

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.

speed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • the state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion; rapidity
    • How does Usain Bolt run at that speed ?
  • the rate of motion or action, specifically (mathematics)/(physics) the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time
  • (photography) the sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
  • (photography) the duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open.
  • (photography) the largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
  • (photography) the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
  • (slang) any amphetamine drug used as a stimulant, especially illegally, especially methamphetamine
  • (archaic) luck, success, prosperity
  • * Bible, Genesis xxiv. 12
    • O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day.
    Synonyms
    * velocity
    Derived terms
    * lightspeed * speed bump * speed chess * speed camera * speed dating * speed demon * speed dial * speed freak * speedful * speed hump * speed limit * speed of light * speed of sound * speedometer * speed queen * speedread * speedrun * speed skating * speedway * speedy
    See also
    Units for measuring speed : metres/meters per second, , [[ft/sec and fps, miles per hour, mph ; mach (aeronautical)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) speden, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To succeed; to prosper, be lucky.
  • *:
  • *:And yf I maye fynde suche a knyghte that hath all these vertues / he may drawe oute this swerd oute of the shethe / for I haue ben at kyng Ryons / it was told me ther were passyng good knyghtes / and he and alle his knyghtes haue assayed it and none can spede
  • *, I.2.4.vii:
    • Aristotle must find out the motion of Euripus; Pliny must needs see Vesuvius; but how sped they? One loseth goods, another his life.
  • *18thc. , (Oliver Goldsmith), Introductory to Switzerland
  • *:At night returning, every labor sped , / He sits him down the monarch of a shed: / Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys, / His children’s looks, that brighten at the blaze;
  • To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Fortune speed us!
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:with rising gales that speed their happy flight
  • (label) To go fast.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=10 citation , passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
  • (label) To exceed the speed limit.
  • :
  • (label) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
  • *1982 , Carole Offir & Carole Wade, Human sexuality, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p.454:
  • *:It is possible that the uterine contractions speed the sperm along.
  • *2004 , James M. Cypher & James L. Dietz, The process of economic development, Routledge, p.359:
  • *:Such interventions can help to speed the process of reducing CBRs and help countries pass through the demographic transition threshold more quickly.
  • To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
  • (label) To be expedient.
  • :
  • (label) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:sped with spavins
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped . / If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead.
  • (label) To wish success or good fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
  • To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
  • *(Edward Fairfax) (c.1580-1635)
  • *:He sped him thence home to his habitation.
  • To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
  • *(John Ayliffe) (1676-1732)
  • *:Judicial actsare sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties.
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "speed")
    Usage notes
    * The Cambridge Guide to English Usage'' indicates that ''sped'' is for objects in motion ''(the race car sped)'' while ''speeded is used for activities or processes, but notes that the British English convention does not hold in American English. * Garner's Modern American Usage'' (2009) indicates that ''speeded'' is incorrect, except in the phrasal verb, (speed up). Most American usage of ''speeded conforms to this. * Sped'' is about six times more common in American English (COCA) than ''speeded''. ''Sped is twice as common in UK English (BNC).
    Derived terms
    * speed up

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    bound

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bownd (archaic)

    Etymology 1

    See bind

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bind)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 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

    (-)
  • (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=5 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.}}
  • (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (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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