Word Meanings - BOUNDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BOUNDING)

• Demarcation
• Definition
• outline
• sketch
• delineation
• bounding
• inclosure
• plan
• limitation

Related words: (words related to BOUNDING)

• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• DEMARCATION
  The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction. The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke.
• DELINEATION
  1. The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from
• DEFINITIONAL
  Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.
• SKETCH
  An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also,
• BOUNDING
  Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.
• SKETCHILY
  In a sketchy or incomplete manner. "Sketchily descriptive." Bartlett.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• SKETCHINESS
  The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.
• DEFINITION
  An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence. (more info) 1. The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, the telescope accurate in definition. 2. Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification;
• OUTLINEAR
  Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline. Trench.
• BOUNDEN
  1. Bound; fastened by bonds. 2. Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden. This holy word, that teacheth us truly our bounden duty toward our Lord God in every point. Ridley. 3. Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.
• SKETCHBOOK
  A book of sketches or for sketches.
• OUTLINE
  The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour. In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated. A sketch composed of such lines;
• BOUNDARY
  That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil
• INCLOSURE
  1. The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence. 2. That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing contained; a space inclosed or fenced up. Within
• BOUNDER
  One who, or that which, limits; a boundary. Sir T. Herbert.
• BOUND
  The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary. He hath compassed the waters with bounds. Job
• SKETCHER
  One who sketches.
• SKETCHY
  Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete. The execution is sketchy throughout; the head, in particular, is left in the rough. J. S. Harford.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• SURREBOUND
  To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.
• REBOUND
  1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• OUTBOUNDS
  The farthest or exterior bounds; extreme limits; boundaries. Spenser.
• WINDBOUND
  prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.
• SNOW-BOUND
  Enveloped in, or confined by, snow. Whittier.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• ABOUND
  1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
• OVERABOUND
  To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.