Talk:bounded

least

What meaning of least applies to the example? --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:32, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

sense

Bounded , which has two main definitions: (1) to confine or serve as the boundary of, and (2) to leap or spring. For example, an island is bounded on all sides by water, and somewhere a rabbit bounded out of a bush this morning. Flāvidus (talk) 09:00, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

verb

The entry states that 'bounded' is the simple past and past participle of bound, while the entry four 'bound' states that it is the simple past and past participle of 'to bind'. How can a word be the past participle of a past participle? 170.194.20.50 09:14, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

You had to scroll down to Etymology 4 to see the correct verb section. I've added code so it now links to the correct etymology. Chuck Entz (talk)

In general, you need to watch for homographs between forms of ablauting verbs in "-ind" such as bind, find, grind and wind and non-ablauting verbs such as bound, found, ground and wind. "Wind" has the added complication of both an ablauting and a non-ablauting verb with homographic infinitive, present and -ing forms:

• wind string around a spool/winding/wound (/ˈwaɪnd/ /ˈwaɪndɪŋ/ /ˈwaʊnd/)
• wind yourself by running too fast/winding/winded (/ˈwɪnd/ /ˈwɪndɪŋ/ /ˈwɪndəd/)

• wind a boat around to face a different direction (probably /ˈwɪnd/ /ˈwɪndɪŋ/ /ˈwɪndəd/)

• wound someone with a knife/wounding/wounded (/ˈwund/ /ˈwundɪŋ/ /ˈwundəd/)

Then there are homophones such as fine (/faɪnd/) and wined/whined (/waɪnd/)

All of this is without going into nonstandard forms and all kinds of dialectal and historical variation (nonstandard "winned" as /ˈwɪnd/; "whined" as /ˈʍaɪn/ without the wine-whine merger; the obsolete "he wound his horn")

I would hazard a guess that it isn't nearly as much fun for non-native speakers to deal with this as it was for me to come up with it... Chuck Entz (talk) 20:19, 20 October 2023 (UTC)