Bound and Commitment

noun

• A line determining the limits of an area.
  • synonyms: boundary, edge
• The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something.
  • synonyms: boundary, bounds
• The greatest possible degree of something.
  • usage: "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
  • synonyms: limit, boundary
• A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards.
  • synonyms: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bounce

verb

• Stick to firmly.
  • usage: "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall"
  • synonyms: adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to
• Create social or emotional ties.
  • usage: "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
  • synonyms: bind, tie, attach, bond
• Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope.
  • usage: "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
  • synonyms: bind
• Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose.
  • synonyms: bind, bandage
• Secure with or as if with ropes.
  • usage: "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"
  • synonyms: tie down, tie up, bind, truss
• Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.
  • usage: "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
  • synonyms: oblige, bind, hold, obligate
• Provide with a binding.
  • usage: "bind the books in leather"
  • synonyms: bind
• Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.
  • usage: "They tied their victim to the chair"
  • synonyms: tie, bind
• Form a chemical bond with.
  • usage: "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
  • synonyms: bind
• Cause to be constipated.
  • usage: "These foods tend to constipate you"
  • synonyms: constipate, bind
• Move forward by leaps and bounds.
  • usage: "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence"
  • synonyms: jump, leap, spring
• Form the boundary of; be contiguous to.
  • synonyms: border
• Place limits on (extent or access. )
  • usage: "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
  • synonyms: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, confine, throttle
• Spring back; spring away from an impact.
  • usage: "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
  • synonyms: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet

adjective

• Confined by bonds.
  • usage: "bound and gagged hostages"
• Held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union.
• Secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form.
  • usage: "bound volumes"; "leather-bound volumes"
• Usually followed by `to'. ( governed by fate)
  • usage: "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous"
  • synonyms: destined
• Covered or wrapped with a bandage.
  • usage: "the bandaged wound on the back of his head"; "an injury bound in fresh gauze"
  • synonyms: bandaged
• Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'.
  • usage: "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York"
  • synonyms: destined
• Bound by an oath.
  • usage: "a bound official"
• Bound by contract.
  • synonyms: apprenticed, articled, indentured
• Confined in the bowels.
  • usage: "he is bound in the belly"

• (p.p.) of Bind.
• (imp.) of Bind.
• (v.) Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz or for Cadiz.
• (p.p.&a.) Constipated; costive.
• (v.t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
• (n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
• (p.p.&a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
• (p.p.&a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
• (v.i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
• (n.) Spring from one foot to the other.
• (n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
• (p.p.&a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
• (n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
• (p.p.&a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
• (p.p.&a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters or the like.
• (v.t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
• (v.t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
• imp. & p. p. of Bind.
• (v.t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
• (v.i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball.

(DoD, NATO) In land warfare, a single movement, usually from cover to cover, made by troops often under enemy fire.
(DoD) Distance covered in one movement by a unit that is advancing by bounds.

noun

• The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose.
  • usage: "a man of energy and commitment"
  • synonyms: committedness
• The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action.
  • usage: "his long commitment to public service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team"
  • synonyms: allegiance, loyalty, dedication
• An engagement by contract involving financial obligation.
  • usage: "his business commitments took him to London"
• A message that makes a pledge.
  • synonyms: dedication
• The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital. ).
  • synonyms: committal, consignment

• (n.) The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
• (n.) The act of committing or putting in charge, keeping or trust; consignment; especially, the act of committing to prison.
• (n.) A doing or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
• (n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
• (n.) The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.

Commitment is a promise by a lender to make a loan on specific terms or conditions to a borrower or builder. A promise by an investor to purchase mortgages from a lender with specific terms or conditions. An agreement, often in writing, between a lender and a borrower to loan money at a future date subject to the completion of paper work or compliance with stated conditions.