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bound
English
Alternative forms
- bownd (archaic)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Etymology 1
From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ?ebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ?ebunden respectively. See bind.
Verb
bound
- simple past tense and past participle of bind
- I bound the splint to my leg.
- I had bound the splint with duct tape.
Adjective
bound (not comparable)
- (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
- (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
- (dated) Constipated; costive.
- Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
- Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
Antonyms
- (logic: constrained by a quantifier): free
Hyponyms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bound, bownde, alternation (with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1 above) of Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).
Adjective
bound (comparative more bound, superlative most bound)
- (obsolete) Ready, prepared.
- Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
- Which way are you bound?
- Is that message bound for me?
- (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to
Derived terms
Related terms
- bound to
- I'll be bound
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English bounde, from Old French bunne, from Medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina (“a bound, limit”)
Noun
bound (plural bounds)
- (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
Translations
Etymology 4
From Middle English bounden, from the noun (see above).
Verb
bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)
- To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
- (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 5
From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombit?re, present active infinitive of bombit? (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).
Noun
bound (plural bounds)
- 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
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Derived terms
- by leaps and bounds
Translations
Verb
bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)
- (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
- The rabbit bounded down the lane.
- (transitive) To cause to leap.
- to bound a horse
- , Act V, Scene II, page 93:
- […] Or if I might buffet for my Loue, or bound my Hor?e for her fauours, I could lay on like a Butcher, and fit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off.
- (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
- a rubber ball bounds on the floor
- (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
- to bound a ball on the floor
Derived terms
- rebound
Translations
Anagrams
- Dubon
Middle English
Noun
bound
- Alternative form of band
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dart
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??t/
- (General American) enPR: därt, IPA(key): /d??t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Etymology 1
From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *dar?þu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *d??- (“to sharpen”); compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”).
Noun
dart (plural darts)
- A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin
- 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, 2 Samuel, xviii, 14,
- Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
- 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, 2 Samuel, xviii, 14,
- Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
- (sometimes figuratively) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
- 1830, Hannah More, Sensibility, The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1, page 38,
- The artful inquiry, whose venom?d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
- 1830, Hannah More, Sensibility, The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1, page 38,
- A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
- (military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
- 1988, Michigan Aviation (volumes 21-25, page 62)
- Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.
- 1988, Michigan Aviation (volumes 21-25, page 62)
- (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
- 1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, 1970, page 79,
- Trucking?s my dart too.
- 1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, 1970, page 79,
- A sudden or fast movement.
- (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
- A fish, the dace.
- (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
- 2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse
- The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.
- 2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).
Verb
dart (third-person singular simple present darts, present participle darting, simple past and past participle darted)
- (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
- (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
- The sun darts forth his beams.
- (transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart
- (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
- The flying man darted eastward.
- (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along
Derived terms
- dartle
- darter
Translations
References
- dart in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- 'tard, -tard, ADRT, Art.D., DTRA, drat, tard, trad
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English dart.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?rt/
- Hyphenation: dart
- Rhymes: -?rt
Noun
dart m (plural darts, diminutive dartje n)
- dart
- Synonym: dartpijl
Derived terms
- darten
- dartpijl
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French dart, dard, from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *dar?þu, from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz.
Alternative forms
- darte
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dart/
Noun
dart (plural dartes)
- A hand-thrown spear or missile; a javelin.
- (figuratively) Assailing; a hostile act.
Descendants
- English: dart
- ? Dutch: dart
- Scots: dart, dairt; dard
References
- “dart, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-29.
Etymology 2
Formed from the noun.
Verb
dart
- Alternative form of darten
Middle French
Alternative forms
- dard, dar
Etymology
Old French, see below
Noun
dart m (plural dars)
- weapon similar to a javelin
Descendants
- French: dard
- ? Italian: dardo
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English dart.
Noun
dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural darter, definite plural dartene)
- a throwing dart
References
- “dart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English dart.
Noun
dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural dartar, definite plural dartane)
- a throwing dart
References
- “dart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
- dard, dar
Etymology
From Medieval Latin dardus (“spear”).
Noun
dart m (oblique plural darz or dartz, nominative singular darz or dartz, nominative plural dart)
- spear, javelin
Descendants
- Middle French: dart, dard, dar
- French: dard
- ? Italian: dardo
- French: dard
- Walloon: darde
- ? Middle English: dart, darte
- English: dart
- ? Dutch: dart
- Scots: dart, dairt; dard
- English: dart
Palauan
Etymology
From Pre-Palauan *ðaðut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?atus, from Proto-Austronesian *?atus.
Numeral
dart
- hundred
Pennsylvania German
Alternative forms
- dort
- datt
Etymology
Compare German dort, da.
Adverb
dart
- there
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse darr, from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz.
Noun
dart c
- darts (the game where the competitors throw small arrows against a circular target)
- (rare) dart (one of the small arrows in the game of darts)
Synonyms
- pilkastning (1)
- pil (2)
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