(idiomatic) That which one is prohibited from entering. / (idiomatic) Beyond the bounds of civility or morality; extremely unreasonable.

(sports) A sideline marking the edge of a playing field or court. / (sports) An instance of a player or the ball going out of bounds.

(programming) A variable that is associated with a value, and therefore a variable that has an allocated storage location. If the programming language implements a representation of a canonical unknown value, infinity, etc., the value bound to the variable may be one of these.

Alternative form of weatherbound.

(linguistic morphology) A morpheme that can only occur when bound to a root morpheme. For example: cran- (as in cranberry), -ed, -ing, -ly.

plural of bound morpheme

destined for prison, by leading a life of crime / incarcerated

(of a hen) Unable to pass an egg that has formed. / (UK, slang) Constipated.

(linguistics, Optimality Theory) A situation where one input-to-output mapping pair receives a set of constraint violations that is a proper subset of the set of constraint violations received by a different input-output pair.

(transitive, linguistics, Optimality Theory) Of an input-output pair, to incur a proper subset of constraint violations of a different input-output pair.