Bound vs. Limit
Boundverb
simple past tense and past participle of bind
Boundverb
To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
Boundverb
(mathematics) To be the boundary of.
Boundverb
(intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
Boundverb
(transitive) To cause to leap.
Boundverb
To rebound; to bounce.
Boundverb
To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
Boundadjective
(with infinitive) Obliged (to).
Boundadjective
(with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to
Boundadjective
That cannot stand alone as a free word.
Boundadjective
Constrained by a quantifier.
Boundadjective
(dated) Constipated; costive.
Boundadjective
Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
Boundadjective
Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
Boundadjective
(obsolete) Ready, prepared.
Boundadjective
Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
Boundnoun
A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
Boundnoun
(mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
Boundnoun
A sizeable jump, great leap.
Boundnoun
A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
Boundnoun
(dated) A bounce; a rebound.
Boundnoun
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.
Boundnoun
A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
Boundnoun
Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
Boundnoun
Spring from one foot to the other.
Boundverb
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.
Boundverb
To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
Boundverb
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.
Boundverb
To rebound, as an elastic ball.
Boundverb
To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
Boundverb
To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
Bound
imp. & p. p. of Bind.
Boundadjective
Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
Boundadjective
Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
Boundadjective
Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
Boundadjective
Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; - followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
Boundadjective
Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
Boundadjective
Constipated; costive.
Boundadjective
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.
Boundnoun
a line determining the limits of an area
Boundnoun
the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
Boundnoun
a light springing movement upwards or forwards
Boundverb
move forward by leaps and bounds;
Boundverb
form the boundary of; be contiguous to
Boundverb
place limits on (extent or access);
Boundverb
spring back; spring away from an impact;
Boundadjective
held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
Boundadjective
confined by bonds;
Boundadjective
secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form;
Boundadjective
(usually followed by `to') governed by fate;
Boundadjective
covered or wrapped with a bandage;
Boundadjective
headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students';
Boundadjective
bound by an oath;
Boundadjective
bound by contract
Boundadjective
confined in the bowels;
Boundverb
walk or run with leaping strides
Boundverb
(of an object) rebound from a surface
Boundverb
form the boundary of; enclose
Boundverb
place within certain limits; restrict
Boundverb
past and past participle of bind
Boundnoun
a leaping movement towards or over something
Boundnoun
a territorial limit; a boundary
Boundnoun
a limitation or restriction on feeling or action
Boundnoun
a limiting value
Boundadjective
certain to be or to do or have something
Boundadjective
obliged by law, circumstances, or duty to do something
Boundadjective
restricted or confined to a specified place
Boundadjective
prevented from operating normally by the specified conditions
Boundadjective
(of a book) having a specified binding
Boundadjective
(of a grammatical element) occurring only in combination with another form.
Boundadjective
in Chomskyan linguistics, (of a reflexive, reciprocal, or other linguistic unit) dependent for its reference on another noun phrase in the same sentence.
Boundadjective
going or ready to go towards a specified place
Boundadjective
destined or very likely to have a specified experience
Limitnoun
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
Limitnoun
(mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
Limitnoun
(mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Limitnoun
(category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
Limitnoun
(poker) Fixed limit.
Limitnoun
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
Limitnoun
(obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
Limitnoun
(obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
Limitnoun
(obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
Limitnoun
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
Limitnoun
(cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
Limitnoun
An exasperating or intolerable person.
Limitadjective
(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
Limitverb
(transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
Limitverb
To have a limit in a particular set.
Limitverb
(obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
Limitnoun
That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.
Limitnoun
The space or thing defined by limits.
Limitnoun
That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
Limitnoun
A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
Limitnoun
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
Limitnoun
A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.
Limitverb
To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.
Limitverb
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
Limitnoun
the greatest possible degree of something;
Limitnoun
final or latest limiting point
Limitnoun
the boundary of a specific area
Limitnoun
as far as something can go
Limitnoun
the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
Limitnoun
the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed;
Limitverb
place limits on (extent or access);
Limitverb
restrict or confine,
Limitverb
decide upon or fix definitely;
