Bound

Definition

bound 1 /baƱnd/ v ခုန္ေပါက္သြားသည္။ He bounded into the room and announced that he was getting married. ❍ The dog came bounding up to us, wagging its tail. n (တစ္) လႊား။ The dog cleared (ie jumped over) the gate in one bound. adj ~ (for…) သြားေန[ေသာ]။ ဦးတည္[ေသာ]။ Where are you bound (for)? ❍ We are bound for home. ❍ This ship is outward bound/homeward bound (ie sailing away from/towards its home port). ❏ -bound (forming compound adjs ) … သို႔ဦးတည္ေသာ။ … သို႔သြားေသာ။ We're Paris-bound. ❍ Northbound traffic may be delayed because of an accident on the motorway. bound 2 /baƱnd/ v (usu passive) နယ္သတ္သည္။ Germany is bounded on the west by France and on the south by Switzerland. ❍ The airfield is bounded by woods on all sides. bound 3 pt, pp of BIND bound 4 /baƱnd/ adj ~ to do sth ၁။ ေသခ်ာ[ေသာ]။ The weather is bound to get better tomorrow. ❍ You've done so much work that you're bound to pass the exam. ၂။ (ဥပေဒအရ၊ အေျခအေနအရ၊ ဝတၱရားအရ) လုပ္ရေသာ။ They are bound by the contract to deliver the goods on time. ❍ I am bound to say I disagree with you on this point. ❏ -bound (forming compound adjs ) ၁။ ဘယ္မွ ထ၍၊ ထြက္၍မရေသာ။ I hate being desk-bound (eg in an office) all day. ❍ His illness has left him completely house-bound. ၂။ ပိတ္ဆီးေနေသာ။ ပိတ္မိေနေသာ။ fog-bound/snowbound airports ❍ Strikebound travellers face long delays this weekend. ❏ bound up in sth [ IDM ] (အလုပ္ စသည္၌) နစ္ျမဳပ္ေနသည္။ She seems very bound up in her work. ❏ bound up with sth [ IDM ] ဆက္ႏႊယ္ပတ္သက္သည္။ Most of his problems are bound up with his childhood. ❏ I'll be bound [ IDM ] ( dated infml ) ဧကႏၲပဲ။ ေသခ်ာ ေပါက္ပဲ။ The children are up to some mischief, I'll be bound!

Examples

1. [bound to] : If you have problems at home
2. it’s bound to affect your work.
3. The kids are out late
4. so of course she’s bound to worry.
5. Knowing Jim
6. he’s bound to be late.
7. She’s bound to find out sooner or later.
8. By signing the contract you agree to be bound by its terms.
9. [be bound by something to do something] : If her patient threatens to kill someone
10. she is bound by law to inform the police.
11. [be/feel bound to do something] : We felt bound to tell her that her son had been taking drugs.
12. [duty/honour bound] : Journalists who feel honour bound to protect their sources of information
13. A bound volume of the whole trilogy
14. [bound in] : An old book of poems
15. bound in dark leather