bound-n; 4 Senses

Sense Number 1: a border region, line of demarcation

Commentary: BOUND[+location][+region][+border]
NOTE: usually occurs in the plural

Examples:
The ball landed in bounds.
That tribe considers the bounds of the ancient forest to be the border of their land.
No trash may dumped at sea within the thirty-mile bound of shore.
The referee said the player caught the ball out of bounds.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2

Sense Number 2: a limit, a constraint

Commentary: BOUND[+quantity][+extent][+limit]

Examples:
Their joy knew no bounds.
Traveling back in time may be beyond the bounds of possibility.
If for every x in set S, x is less than or equal to a, then a is an upper bound of S. (no element in S exceeds a)
Sally's kitchen was out of bounds to us on Thanksgiving. (idiomatic extension)

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3

Sense Number 3: a leap or jump

Commentary: BOUND[+action][+leap]

Examples:
John ran up the steps in two effortless bounds.
The rabbit took a bound to the left and jumped into a hole.

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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 4: none of the above

Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)

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