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# bounds

«bounds» in Mova's school dictionary: **allowed: within the bounds of the park** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, plural (bounds); verb, third person of bound (bound, bounds, bounded, bounding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Limits or borders of an area or of what is allowed: within the bounds of the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#m1)

2) Out of bounds: a place you are not allowed to go, or (in sport) outside the playing area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#m2)

3) By leaps and bounds: very quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#m3)

4) (verb) Jumps or runs with big leaps: the dog bounds across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#m4)

5) (maths) Upper and lower bounds: the largest and smallest values a rounded number could have been. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#m5)

6) If joy or another feeling knows no bounds, it is so great that it has no limit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In school "out of bounds" names places pupils must not go; in safety it keeps children away from danger. In maths, bounds tell you the range a rounded measurement could be. In stories "leaps and bounds" shows fast progress. Phrases: out of bounds, within bounds, leaps and bounds, know no bounds, upper bound, lower bound.

### examples

- The staff room is out of bounds to pupils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#x1)
- The ball went out of bounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#x2)
- Her reading has improved in leaps and bounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#x3)
- The puppy bounds up the stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#x4)
- Stay within the bounds of the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#x5)
- A length of 7 cm to the nearest cm has a lower bound of 6.5 cm and an upper bound of 7.5 cm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#x6)
- His excitement knew no bounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#x7)
- The joy of the king knew no bounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/#x8)

### note

In the "limits" sense it is always plural. Maths: rounded to the nearest whole number, the bounds are half a unit each side (6.5 up to but not including 7.5). "Bound" can also mean tied, certain (bound to win), or heading (bound for London).

### In the corpora

- [Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery! they break all bounds, and blood toucheth blood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.41/)
- [And still again they tried God, and set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1368/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bounds» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bounds/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.