leap leaping spring saltation bound bounce | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
pincer pair of pincers tweezer pair of tweezers | a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping |
pliers pair of pliers plyers | a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws |
scissors pair of scissors | an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades |
tongs pair of tongs | any of various devices for taking hold of objects, usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below |
virginal pair of virginals | a legless rectangular harpsichord, played (usually by women) in the th and th centuries |
limit bound boundary | the greatest possible degree of something, what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior, to the limit of his ability |
bound morpheme bound form | a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction, eg an -s at the end of plural nouns |
pair | a poker hand with cards of the same value |
pair | two people considered as a unit |
pair brace | a set of two similar things considered as a unit |
boundary bound bounds | the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something |
au pair | a young foreigner who lives with a family in return for doing light housework |
au pair girl | a foreign girl serving as an au pair |
pair production pair creation pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
d couple pair twosome twain brace span yoke couplet distich duo duet dyad duad | two items of the same kind |
boundary edge bound | a line determining the limits of an area |
upper bound | (mathematics) a number equal to or greater than any other number in a given set |
lower bound | (mathematics) a number equal to or less than any other number in a given set |
base pair | one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands, the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA |
restrict restrain trammel limit bound confine throttle | place limits on (extent or access), restrict the use of this parking lot, limit the time you can spend with your friends |
match mate couple pair twin | bring two objects, ideas, or people together, This fact is coupled to the other one, Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?, The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project |
copulate mate pair couple | engage in sexual intercourse, Birds mate in the Spring |
pair geminate | arrange in pairs, Pair these numbers |
pair geminate | occur in pairs |
bounce resile take a hop spring bound rebound recoil reverberate ricochet | spring back, spring away from an impact, The rubber ball bounced, These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide |
skip bound off | bound off one point after another |
jump leap bound spring | move forward by leaps and bounds, The horse bounded across the meadow, The child leapt across the puddle, Can you jump over the fence? |
pair pair off partner off couple | form a pair or pairs, The two old friends paired off |
bound border | form the boundary of, be contiguous to |
desk-bound deskbound | restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity |
bound | confined by bonds, bound and gagged hostages |
bound | secured with a cover or binding, often used as a combining form, bound volumes, leather-bound volumes |
half-bound | (of books) having the back bound in one material and the sides in another |
well-bound | (of books) having a sturdy and attractive binding |
bound(p) destined | (usually followed by `to') governed by fate, bound to happen, an old house destined to be demolished, he is destined to be famous |
bound up wrapped up | deeply devoted to, bound up in her teaching, is wrapped up in his family |
weather-bound | delayed or shut in by bad weather, weather-bound traffic, irritable weather-bound children |
bound(p) | confined in the bowels, he is bound in the belly |
fascinated hypnotized hypnotised mesmerized mesmerised spellbound spell-bound transfixed | having your attention fixated as though by a spell |
in-bound | between the first and third base lines |
out-of-bound | outside the foul lines |
muscle-bound | having stiff muscles as the result of excessive exercise, he arrived accompanied by two muscle-bound body guards |
bound | held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union |
apprenticed articled bound indentured | bound by contract |
frost-bound | (of the ground) made hard by frost |
outbound outward outward-bound | that is going out or leaving, the departing train, an outward journey, outward-bound ships |
duty-bound(p) obliged(p) | under a moral obligation to do something |
bound destined | headed or intending to head in a certain direction, often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students', children bound for school, a flight destined for New York |
homeward homeward-bound | oriented toward home, in a homeward direction, homeward-bound commuters |