bounds
bowndz
- n the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
- n a line determining the limits of an area
- n the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
- n the greatest possible degree of something
what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior - n a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- v move forward by leaps and bounds
- v form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- v place limits on (extent or access)
- v spring back; spring away from an impact
- He was sentenced to death, under new guidelines that would make sure the penalty was not "cruel and unusual" and therefore within constitutional bounds.
- This sort of civil-liberties fetishism is a hangover from the Vietnam era, when the Nixon Administration wildly exceeded all bounds of legalityspying on antiwar protesters .
- And to greet a visitor, she bounds down a flight of steps in her boarding school for visually impaired children in Tibet's capital Lhasa.