embound
astrict
tie down
trussed
tied
ceil
confinable
contain
bound
constrain
retrench
terminate
circumscribe
limit
confine to
umcast
coconstrain
straitened
fasciate
bracket
hamshackle
trammel
curbed
overbind
behedge
restrictionary
nether
reconfine
cobound
chain
bail
stint
box up
truss
border
pull the reins in on someone
shut in
encircled
surrounded
pind
constrainingly
tie
brow
forel
boundling
skip
bound off
coconstrained
confinement
restriction
restricting
restrictory
coop up
in chains
measured
closeted
enfasten
constringe
enchained
procrusteanize
corset
overbound
dislodge
minorize
chained
securable
coop in
hold
wedge
bind
restrict
supply
restrictive
lash down
vinculate
provision
confine
incarcerate
proviso
hedge
tuggable
locker
restrained
hedge in
laced-up
shut up
pent
pledged
sworn
shipshape and Bristol fashion
in a box
devolvable
butt
demarcative
secernate
liable
trussed
tied
confinable
bound
straitened
curbed
restrictionary
cobound
encircled
surrounded
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restricting
restrictory
in chains
measured
closeted
enchained
chained
securable
restrictive
tuggable
restrained
laced-up
shut up
pent
pledged
sworn
shipshape and Bristol fashion
devolvable
demarcative
liable
constrainingly
stint
boundling
confinement
restriction
supply
provision
proviso
locker
embound
astrict
tie down
ceil
contain
bound
constrain
retrench
terminate
circumscribe
limit
confine to
umcast
coconstrain
fasciate
bracket
hamshackle
trammel
overbind
behedge
nether
reconfine
chain
bail
box up
truss
border
pull the reins in on someone
shut in
pind
tie
brow
forel
skip
bound off
coop up
enfasten
constringe
procrusteanize
corset
overbound
dislodge
minorize
coop in
hold
wedge
bind
restrict
lash down
vinculate
confine
incarcerate
hedge
hedge in
butt
secernate
verb
verb
- To be the bound of.
- To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.
- I bound the splint to my leg.
- To leap, move by jumping.
- The rabbit bounded down the lane.
- To cause to leap.
adj
- Obliged (to).
- Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
- That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- Very likely (to), certain to
- Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
- Constrained by a quantifier.
- Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
noun
verb
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To cut down or reduce.
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To take up a new defensive position.
verb
- To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- To conclude.
- To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- To kill someone or something.
- To issue or result.
- To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
adj
verb
- To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
- To set aside, discount, ignore.
- To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
- To place in the same category.
- To enclose in typographical brackets.
- In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.
- To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
- To support by means of mechanical brackets.
- To mark distinctly for special treatment.
noun
- The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
- "[" and "]" specifically - as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
- One of several ranges of numbers.
- The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
- A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
- A printed diagram of games in a tournament.
- A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
- Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
- A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
- Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
- A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
verb
noun
- A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
- A net for confining a woman's hair.
- A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
- A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
- Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
- A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
- An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
- A beam compass.
adj
verb
- To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
- To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
noun
- Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
- A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
adj
adv
verb
verb
- To obligate.
- To link multiple items together.
- To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
- To fasten something with a chain.
- To secure someone with fetters.
- To load and automatically run (a program).
- To be chained to another data item.
noun
- A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
- A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- A long measuring tape.
- A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- The warp threads of a web.
- A series of interconnected things.
verb
- To confine.
- To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
- To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
- To secure the head of a cow during milking.
- To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
- To release a person under such guarantee.
- To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
- To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
- To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
- To set free; to deliver; to release.
- To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).
- To exit quickly.
noun
- Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
- A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- The person providing such payment.
- A person who bails water out of a boat.
- A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
- One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
- A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
- A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
- Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
- A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
verb
- To secure or bind with ropes.
- To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
- To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
- To tie up a bird before cooking it.
- To support.
noun
- The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
- A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
- A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
- A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
- A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
- A triangular bracket.
- Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
- An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
verb
- To form a border around; to bound.
- To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- To put a border on something.
- To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
noun
- A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
- The outer edge of something.
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
verb
- limit or restrict to
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- form a knot or bow in
- create social or emotional ties
- perform a marriage ceremony
- make by tying pieces together
- unite musical notes by a tie
noun
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a social or business relationship
- equality of score in a contest
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
verb
noun
- The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
- A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
- The forehead.
- The first tine of an antler's beam.
- The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
- The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
- Aspect; appearance.
- The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
verb
noun
verb
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
noun
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To shape into a wedge.
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
noun
- A háček.
- The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- A quantity of money.
- The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A wedge tornado.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
verb
- To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
- To put together in a cover, as of books.
- To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
- To place under legal obligation to serve.
- To cover, as with a bandage.
- To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
- To make two or more elements stick together.
- To exert a binding or restraining influence.
- To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
- To couple.
- To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
- To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
- To cohere or stick together in a mass.
- To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
- To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
- To complain; to whine about something.
- To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
noun
- That which binds or ties.
- A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
- The indurated clay of coal mines.
- A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
- Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
- A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
noun
- Provisions.
- An amount of something supplied.
- An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
- Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
- The act of supplying.
verb
- To furnish or equip with.
- To fill up, or keep full.
- To act as a substitute.
- To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
- To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
adv
adj
prep_phrase
verb
- To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- To strike bluntly with the head.
noun
- The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- The buttocks (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
- An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
- Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- A thrust in fencing.
- Body; self.
- A used cigarette.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
verb
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