What is the meaning of BOUNDING. Phrases containing BOUNDING
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Bounding was old British slang for behaving with unacceptable effrontery or showiness.
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a.
Moving with a bound or bounds.
n.
The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
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That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.
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That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.
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A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
superl.
A bounding with juice; succulent.
a.
A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.
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To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
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An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.
v. i.
Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
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Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts.
a. a.
bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze.
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The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.
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That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys.
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