Bound

Bound may refer to:

  • The Rough Bounds, in Scotland
  • Upper and lower bounds, observed limits of mathematical functions
  • Terms or bounds, segments of each astrological sign that are said to have different ruling planets
  • Bound state, in physics
  • Bounds checking, in computer programming
  • In law, parties can be bound to an enforceable contract
  • Beating the bounds, checking all the way round the boundaries of an area (such as a town or parish)
  • Bound, a descriptor of a book that has gone through the bookbinding process
  • Edward McKendree Bounds, a Methodist minister and author of books chiefly on prayer
  • Bound up, a physical restraint technique.
  • To walk with a spring in one's step.
  • Bound (car), British 4 wheeled cyclecar made in 1920
  • Bound Bar, a bar in Paris.

In entertainment:

  • Bound (film), a 1996 film by the Wachowskis
  • "Bound" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a fourth season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
  • "Bound", a Song from Rusted Angel by Darkane
  • The Bound(s) another name for the race called Bount(s) in the anime Bleach.
  • "Bound" (Fringe), an episode of the television series Fringe

Famous quotes containing the word bound:

    “I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.”
    —Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

    “The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state.... It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    “I stand in awe of my body, this matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one,—that my body might,—but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature,—daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)