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Timebound vs Deadline - What's the difference?

timebound | deadline |

As an adjective timebound

is attached to a certain moment or era in time.

As a noun deadline is

a date on or before which something must be completed.

As a verb deadline is

to render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.

timebound

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Attached to a certain moment or era in time.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 19, author=Christine Kenneally, title=Thinking Out Loud, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Because speech is timebound and words can come only one after the other, the way we stall, stumble and start again provides clues to the way we render thought with sound. }}

    deadline

    English

    (wikipedia deadline)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A date on or before which something must be completed.
    • I must make this deadline or my boss will ''kill'' me!
  • (archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
  • (archaic) A line that does not move. (rfex)
  • (archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.

    • Verb

    (deadlin)
  • (military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.
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