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-) Noun.

-) Plural: bounds.

-) Pronunciation: baʊnd.

-) Etymology: from verb BOUND “to leap”, from French bondir “resound; to leap, rebound”.

-) It is dated from the end of 1500.

-) Meaning: -) a. Act of bounding; a propelling oneself upward with one or both legs, either to change position or to locomote..-) b. Act of bounding; an elastic spring of something after being forced against a surface; an elastic movement upward or onward.

-) Synonyms for “bound”: to jump, spring, leap.

-) Translation: salto, in Spanish; salto, in Italian; saut, in French.

They all seize it [the prey] with a bound, at the same time expressing their fierce pleasure with a roar.

O. Goldsmith… A History of the Earth… 1774

Scarce any of the animals with short legs and long bodies, pursue their prey; but, knowing their own incapacity to overtake it by swiftness, either creep upon it in its retreats, or wait in ambush and seize it with a bound.

O. Goldsmith… A History of the Earth… 1774

The cat can leap several feet at a bound; and the tiger, who is ten times as long, can no doubt spring proportionably.

O. Goldsmith… A History of the Earth… 1774

From the peculiar structure of the kanguroo, there can be little doubt that its principal progressive motion is performed by leaps. It has, in fact, been seen to spring over twenty feet at a bound.

D. Brewster… The Edinburgh encyclopaedia… 1808

-) Words derived from “bound”: bound (verb), rebound, bounder, bounding.

 

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