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Half a leap, half a leash — the only word that means free and trapped at once.
means To leap or spring forward, or alternatively to be tied, obligated, or confined — and sometimes simply heading toward a place ('bound for home').
from This is really several words wearing one coat. The 'leap' sense comes from French 'bondir,' to resound or rebound, and ultimately Latin 'bombus,' a booming sound — a bound was once an echo before it was a jump. The 'tied' sense is the past participle of 'bind,' from Old English 'bindan,' rooted in a Germanic word for fastening. And 'bound for' is the odd one out: from Old Norse 'búinn,' 'ready' or 'prepared,' which English speakers reshaped to look like the others. Three unrelated travelers, accidentally identical at the inn.
- twin meanings
- Springing forward and tied down share one spelling
- book bound
- Pages get bound, so do prisoners
- math limit
- An upper bound is a wall numbers can't pass
- destination
- Bound for somewhere means already committed to going
christopher reeve — actor paralyzed from neck down after 1995 horseback riding accident, became disability advocate
bound for glory — woody guthrie's 1943 autobiography documenting his travels across depression-era america