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bounds

bounds \bounds\ n.

  1. the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something; as, the fotball was caught out of bounds.

    Syn: boundary, bound.

  2. the greatest possible extent or degree of something.

    Syn: limit, boundary.

Wiktionary
bounds

n. (plural of bound English). vb. (en-third-person singular of: bound)

WordNet
bounds
  1. n. the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something [syn: boundary, bound]

  2. the greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability" [syn: limit, boundary]

Wikipedia
Bounds (surname)

Bounds is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Bobby Bounds, American football player
  • Dallen Bounds (1971–1999), American serial killer
  • Dennis Bounds (born 1977), American news anchor
  • Jon Bounds (born 1975), English bolgger
  • Mark Bounds, American football player
  • Philip Bounds, British historian
  • Sydney James Bounds (1920–2006), English author
  • Tucker Bounds, American poltiician

Usage examples of "bounds".

Rossetti pushed revision beyond the bounds of prudence, freely correcting grammatical errors, rectifying small inconsistencies in the sense, and too lightly adopting conjectural emendations on the grounds of rhyme or metre.

Although I had not a penny in my pocket and had two rivers to cross over, I congratulated myself on having got rid of a man of his character, for by myself I felt confident of being able to cross the bounds of the Republic.

The wine was delicious, and we stayed at table till midnight, laughing and joking together, though without overstepping the bounds of propriety.

She seems vexed at my want of excitement, and, throwing off everything which makes the heat unpleasant and interferes with our pleasure, she bounds upon me.

Koriani sigils no doubt were at play, driving men to the chase past the bounds of practical sense.

The integrity that cemented his trust crossed beyond life, went past nerve, flesh, and bone, and the bounds of sane limits and safety.

Broken into cold sweat, Elaira understood that all freedoms would be observed without parity inside the bounds of these gates.

But all event, past and present, is in fact simultaneous outside the bounds of the veil.

His beleaguered senses had ranged beyond reach, lost in the grand weave of subliminal vibrations beyond the bounds of the veil.

Like mad animals possessed by some ravening need outside the bounds of their nature, they would course their live prey with insane disregard for survival.

This being might bear Mm past the bounds of the veil and grant him the untarnished recall of a lost paradise.

Velitrium, that raw, turbulent frontier town on the banks of Thunder River, to the shores of that other river that bounds the Bossonian marches.

Science loves eccentricities, leaps and bounds, trials of strength, fancies, if I may be allowed so to term them.

He found my little mistress smiling and polite, but always keeping within the bounds of decency, from which he would have very willingly excused her.

I perceived that though men rarely become mad, still such an event is well within the bounds of possibility, for our reasoning faculties are like powder, which, though it catches fire easily, will never catch fire at all without a spark.