Keyboard shortcuts

Anywhere

⌘K: Search, go anywhere, switch course
/: The same, when not typing
?: Show this list
L: Start a session (on the home page)

In a session

Space: Turn the card over, then answer “Knew it”
1–4: Forgot · Hard · Knew it · Easy — or pick a meaning in a first test
0: I don’t know (in a first test)
Enter: Continue, check a typed answer, next round
K: I already know this word
P: Hear the word (again, on a card asked by ear)
C: Count a typed synonym as right
U: Undo the last answer

esc

Go to
Sign in
Create an account

↑↓ to move↵ to open⌘K anywhere

Kenne

Learn English, German or Russian from the words people actually say.

Learn

Dictionary
Topics
Sign in

About

Privacy policy
privacy@kenne.app

Definitions from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), credited to their authors.

bound — English verb · Kenne

verb#9,404 by frequency

bound

/ˈbaʊ̯nd/

To leap, move by jumping; To cause to leap; To rebound; to bounce

he/she/it: bounds
past participle: bounded

Meanings

1
To leap, move by jumping
2
To cause to leap
3
To rebound; to bounce
4
To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce
5
To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary ofrare
6
To be the bound ofrare

nounnot in the study set

bound

/ˈbaʊ̯nd/

A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory; A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values

plural: bounds

Meanings

1
A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory
2
A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values
3
A sizeable jump, great leaprare
4
A spring from one foot to the other in dancingrare
5

A bounce; a rebound

rare