bound4

[bound] /baʊnd/
adjective
1.
going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for):
The train is bound for Denver.
2.
Archaic. prepared; ready.
Origin
1150-1200; Middle English b(o)un ready < Old Norse būinn, past participle of būa to get ready
British Dictionary definitions for bound for

bound1

/baʊnd/
verb
1.
the past tense and past participle of bind
adjective
2.
in bonds or chains; tied with or as if with a rope: a bound prisoner
3.
(in combination) restricted; confined: housebound, fogbound
4.
(postpositive, foll by an infinitive) destined; sure; certain: it's bound to happen
5.
(postpositive) , often foll by by. compelled or obliged to act, behave, or think in a particular way, as by duty, circumstance, or convention
6.
(of a book) secured within a cover or binding: to deliver bound books See also half-bound
7.
(US) (postpositive) , foll by on. resolved; determined: bound on winning
8.
(linguistics)
  1. denoting a morpheme, such as the prefix non-, that occurs only as part of another word and not as a separate word in itself Compare free (sense 21)
  2. (in systemic grammar) denoting a clause that has a nonfinite predicator or that is introduced by a binder, and that occurs only together with a freestanding clause Compare freestanding
9.
(logic) (of a variable) occurring within the scope of a quantifier that indicates the degree of generality of the open sentence in which the variable occurs: in (x) (Fx → bxy), x is bound and y is free See free (sense 22)
10.
bound up with, closely or inextricably linked with: his irritability is bound up with his work
11.
I'll be bound, I am sure (something) is true

bound2

/baʊnd/
verb
1.
to move forwards or make (one's way) by leaps or jumps
2.
to bounce; spring away from an impact
noun
3.
a jump upwards or forwards
4.
by leaps and bounds, with unexpectedly rapid progess: her condition improved by leaps and bounds
5.
a sudden pronounced sense of excitement: his heart gave a sudden bound when he saw her
6.
a bounce, as of a ball
Word Origin
C16: from Old French bond a leap, from bondir to jump, resound, from Vulgar Latin bombitīre (unattested) to buzz, hum, from Latin bombus booming sound

bound3

/baʊnd/
verb
1.
(transitive) to place restrictions on; limit
2.
when intr, foll by on. to form a boundary of (an area of land or sea, political or administrative region, etc)
noun
3.
(maths)
  1. a number which is greater than all the members of a set of numbers (an upper bound), or less than all its members (a lower bound) See also bounded (sense 1)
  2. more generally, an element of an ordered set that has the same ordering relation to all the members of a given subset
  3. whence, an estimate of the extent of some set
4.
See bounds
Word Origin
C13: from Old French bonde, from Medieval Latin bodina, of Gaulish origin

bound4

/baʊnd/
adjective
1.
  1. (postpositive) , often foll by for. going or intending to go towards; on the way to: a ship bound for Jamaica, homeward bound
  2. (in combination): northbound traffic
Word Origin
C13: from Old Norse buinn, past participle of būa to prepare
Word Origin and History for bound for

bound

adj.

"fastened," mid-14c., in figurative sense of "compelled," from bounden, past participle of bind (v.). Meaning "under obligation" is from late 15c.; the literal sense "made fast by tying" is the latest recorded (1550s).

"ready to go," c.1200, boun, from Old Norse buinn past participle of bua "to prepare," also "to dwell, to live," from Proto-Germanic *bowan (cf. Old High German buan "to dwell," Old Danish both "dwelling, stall"), from PIE root *bheue- "to be, exist, dwell" (see be). Final -d is presumably through association with bound (adj.1).

n.

"limit," c.1200, from Anglo-Latin bunda, from Old French bonde "limit, boundary, boundary stone" (12c., Modern French borne), variant of bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina, perhaps from Gaulish. Now chiefly in out of bounds, which originally referred to limits imposed on students at schools.

v.

"to form the boundary of," also "to set the boundaries of," late 14c., from bound (n.). Related: Bounded; bounding.

"to leap," 1580s, from French bondir "to rebound, resound, echo," from Old French bondir "to leap, rebound; make a noise, beat (a drum)," 13c., ultimately "to echo back," from Vulgar Latin *bombitire "to buzz, hum" (see bomb (n.)), perhaps on model of Old French tentir, from Vulgar Latin *tinnitire.

Idioms and Phrases with bound for

bound for

On the way to, heading for. For example, This bus is bound for Broadway. It is also found in a well-known gospel hymn in which the singer is “bound for the land of Canaan.” This phrase stems from the 12th-century meaning of bound as “ready” or “prepared.”

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