a territorial limit; a boundary
the ancient bounds of the forest
going or ready to go towards a specified place
an express train bound for Edinburgh
the three moon-bound astronauts
certain to be or to do or have something
there is bound to be a change of plan
restricted or confined to a specified place
his job kept him city-bound
(of a book) having a specified binding
fine leather-bound books
(of a grammatical element) occurring only in combination with another form
tie or fasten (something) tightly together
they bound her hands and feet
the logs were bound together with ropes
cause (people) to feel united
it's music that has bound us together
we have many ties that bind us—historical, cultural, and economical
impose a legal or contractual obligation on
a party who signs a document will normally be bound by its terms
the council should seek to bind the parties to a programme of environmental improvements
fix together and enclose (the pages of a book) in a cover
a small, fat volume, bound in red morocco
(of a quantifier) be applied to (a given variable) so that the variable falls within its scope. For example, in an expression of the form ‘For every x, if x is a dog, x is an animal’, the universal quantifier is binding the variable x
(of a rule or set of grammatical conditions) determine the relationship between (coreferential noun phrases)