Compassed and Bounded
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- 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.
- 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, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet
adjective
- Having the limits or boundaries established.
- usage: "a delimited frontier through the disputed region"
- synonyms: delimited
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(imp.&p.p.) of Bound.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary