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involuntary
English
Etymology
From in- +? voluntary, from Late Latin involontarius, from in + volontarius.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?v?l.?n?t?.?i/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?v?l.?n.t?i/
- Hyphenation: in?vol?un?ta?ry
Adjective
involuntary (comparative more involuntary, superlative most involuntary)
- Without intention; unintentional.
- Not voluntary or willing; contrary or opposed to explicit will or desire; unwilling.
Synonyms
- (without intention): inadvertent, unintended; see also Thesaurus:unintentional
- (not voluntary): unbewised, unvoluntary; see also Thesaurus:compulsory
Derived terms
- involuntarily
- involuntariness
- involuntary manslaughter
Related terms
- volunteer
Translations
References
- involuntary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- involuntary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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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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