- (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- (v.t.) To confound.
- (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
- (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.
Commit and Bound
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verb
- Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
- Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
- Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
- Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice
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(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
noun
- A line determining the limits of an area.
- The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something.
- The greatest possible degree of something.
- usage: "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
- A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards.
verb
- Stick to firmly.
- usage: "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall"
- Create social or emotional ties.
- usage: "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
- 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.
- Secure with or as if with ropes.
- usage: "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"
- Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.
- usage: "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
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- (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.
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