Bound vs. Leap — What's the Difference?

Walk or run with leaping strides

Jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force

Form the boundary of; enclose

Move quickly and suddenly

Past and past participle of bind

A forceful jump or quick movement

A leaping movement towards or over something

A group of leopards

A territorial limit; a boundary

To propel oneself quickly upward or a long way; spring or jump

Certain to be or to do or have something

To move quickly or suddenly

Restricted or confined to a specified place

To change quickly or abruptly from one condition or subject to another

(of a book) having a specified binding

To act quickly or impulsively

(of a grammatical element) occurring only in combination with another form.

To enter eagerly into an activity; plunge

Going or ready to go towards a specified place

To propel oneself over

To leap forward or upward; jump; spring

To cause to leap

To move forward by leaps or springs

The act of leaping; a jump.

To spring back from a surface; rebound

A place jumped over or from.

To set a limit to; confine

The distance cleared in a leap.

To constitute the boundary or limit of

An abrupt or precipitous passage, shift, or transition

To identify the boundaries of; demarcate.

(intransitive) To jump.

To border on another place, state, or country.

(transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.

Past tense and past participle of bind.

To copulate with (a female beast)

A leap; a jump

To copulate with (a human)

A springing back from a surface after hitting it; a bounce

(transitive) To cause to leap.

Often bounds A boundary; a limit

The act of leaping or jumping.

Bounds The territory on, within, or near limiting lines

The distance traversed by a leap or jump.

Confined by bonds; tied

A group of leopards.

Being under legal or moral obligation

(figuratively) A significant move forward.

Equipped with a cover or binding

(figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.

Predetermined; certain

(mining) A fault.

Determined; resolved

Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.

(Linguistics) Being a form, especially a morpheme, that cannot stand as an independent word, such as a prefix or suffix.

(music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.

Constipated.

A salmon ladder.

Headed or intending to head in a specified direction

A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.

Simple past tense and past participle of bind

Half a bushel.

To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.

(calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.

To be the bound of.

A basket.

(intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.

A weel or wicker trap for fish.

(transitive) To cause to leap.

The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.

To rebound; to bounce.

Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.

To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.

A fault.

(with infinitive) Obliged (to).

A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.

That cannot stand alone as a free word.

To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.

Constrained by a quantifier.

To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.

(dated) Constipated; costive.

To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.

Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.

To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.

Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.

To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.

(obsolete) Ready, prepared.

A light springing movement upwards or forwards

Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

An abrupt transition;

(with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to

A sudden and decisive increase;

A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.

The distance leaped (or to be leaped);

(mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.

Move forward by leaps and bounds;

A sizeable jump, great leap.

Pass abruptly from one state or topic to another;

A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.

Cause to jump or leap;

(dated) A bounce; a rebound.

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.

A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.

Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.

Spring from one foot to the other.

To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; - said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.

To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.

To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.

To rebound, as an elastic ball.

To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.

To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.

Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.

Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.

Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.

Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; - followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.

Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.

Constipated; costive.

Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; - with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.

A line determining the limits of an area

The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something

A light springing movement upwards or forwards

Move forward by leaps and bounds;

Form the boundary of; be contiguous to

Place limits on (extent or access);

Spring back; spring away from an impact;

Held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union

Confined by bonds;

Secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form;

(usually followed by `to') governed by fate;

Covered or wrapped with a bandage;

Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students';

Bound by an oath;

Bound by contract

Confined in the bowels;