English Dictionary: boundedness | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Buccinum \[d8]Buc"ci*num\, n. [L., a trumpet, a trumpet shell.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk ({B. undatum}). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Band \Band\ (b[acr]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Banded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Banding}.] 1. To bind or tie with a band. 2. To mark with a band. 3. To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. [bd]Banded against his throne.[b8] --Milton. {Banded architrave}, {pier}, {shaft}, etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles. | |
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Band \Band\ (b[acr]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Banded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Banding}.] 1. To bind or tie with a band. 2. To mark with a band. 3. To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. [bd]Banded against his throne.[b8] --Milton. {Banded architrave}, {pier}, {shaft}, etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bandied} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bandying}.] 1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without. --Cudworth. 2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. [bd]To bandy hasty words.[b8] --Shak. 3. To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate. Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation. --I. Watts. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bandit \Ban"dit\, n.; pl. {Bandits}, [or] {Banditti}. [It. bandito outlaw, p. p. of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to proscribe, LL. bandire, bannire. See {Ban} an edict, and cf. {Banish}.] An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. --Milton. Note: The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective noun. Deerstealers are ever a desperate banditti. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Bandit \Ban"dit\, n.; pl. {Bandits}, [or] {Banditti}. [It. bandito outlaw, p. p. of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to proscribe, LL. bandire, bannire. See {Ban} an edict, and cf. {Banish}.] An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. --Milton. Note: The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective noun. Deerstealers are ever a desperate banditti. --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bandit \Ban"dit\, n.; pl. {Bandits}, [or] {Banditti}. [It. bandito outlaw, p. p. of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to proscribe, LL. bandire, bannire. See {Ban} an edict, and cf. {Banish}.] An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. --Milton. Note: The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective noun. Deerstealers are ever a desperate banditti. --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bayonet \Bay"o*net\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bayoneted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bayoneting}.] 1. To stab with a bayonet. 2. To compel or drive by the bayonet. To bayonet us into submission. --Burke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bend \Bend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bended} or {Bent}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bending}.] [AS. bendan to bend, fr. bend a band, bond, fr. bindan to bind. See {Bind}, v. t., and cf. 3d & 4th {Bend}.] 1. To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee. 2. To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline. [bd]Bend thine ear to supplication.[b8] --Milton. Towards Coventry bend we our course. --Shak. Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. --Sir W. Scott. 3. To apply closely or with interest; to direct. To bend his mind to any public business. --Temple. But when to mischief mortals bend their will. --Pope. 4. To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue. [bd]Except she bend her humor.[b8] --Shak. 5. (Naut.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor. --Totten. {To bend the brow}, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. --Camden. Syn: To lean; stoop; deflect; bow; yield. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Benet \Be*net"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Benetted}.] To catch in a net; to insnare. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bindweed \Bind"weed`\, n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Convolvulus}; as, greater bindweed ({C. Sepium}); lesser bindweed ({C. arvensis}); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or {Tamus}, is called {black bindweed}, and the {Smilax aspera}, {rough bindweed}. The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. --Tennyson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Diiodide \Di*i"o*dide\ (?; 104), n. [Pref. di- + iodine.] (Chem.) A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also {biniodide}. | |
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Biniodide \Bin*i"o*dide\, n. Same as {Diiodide}. | |
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Diiodide \Di*i"o*dide\ (?; 104), n. [Pref. di- + iodine.] (Chem.) A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also {biniodide}. | |
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Biniodide \Bin*i"o*dide\, n. Same as {Diiodide}. | |
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Bonded \Bond"ed\, a. Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations. {Bonded goods}, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. {Bonded warehouse}, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bond \Bond\ (b[ocr]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bonded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bonding}.] 1. To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond. 2. (Arch.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bonded \Bond"ed\, a. Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations. {Bonded goods}, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. {Bonded warehouse}, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bonded \Bond"ed\, a. Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations. {Bonded goods}, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. {Bonded warehouse}, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bonnet \Bon"net\ (b[ocr]n"n[ecr]t), n. [OE. bonet, OF. bonet, bonete. F. bonnet fr. LL. bonneta, bonetum; orig. the name of a stuff, and of unknown origin.] 1. A headdress for men and boys; a cap. [Obs.] --Milton. --Shak. 2. A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland. And p[?]i[?]s and bonnets waving high. --Sir W. Scott. 3. A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel. 4. Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use; as, (a) (Fort.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire. (b) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc. (c) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks. (d) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft. (e) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers. 5. (Naut.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds. --Hakluyt. 6. The second stomach of a ruminating animal. 7. An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy. [Cant] {Bonnet head} (Zo[94]l.), a shark ({Sphyrna tiburio}) of the southern United States and West Indies. {Bonnet limpet} (Zo[94]l.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family {Calyptr[91]id[91]}). {Bonnet monkey} (Zo[94]l.), an East Indian monkey ({Macacus sinicus}), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. {Bonnet piece}, a gold coin of the time of James V. of Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. --Sir W. Scott. {To have a bee in the bonnet}. See under {Bee}. {Black bonnet}. See under {Black}. {Blue bonnet}. See in the Vocabulary. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bonneted \Bon"net*ed\, a. 1. Wearing a bonnet. [bd]Bonneted and shawled.[b8] --Howitt. 2. (Fort.) Protected by a bonnet. See {Bonnet}, 4 (a) . | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bound \Bound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bounding}.] 1. 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. Where full measure only bounds excess. --Milton. Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds. --Dryden. 2. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bountihead \Boun"ti*head\, Bountyhood \Boun"ty*hood\, n. Goodness; generosity. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Bountihead \Boun"ti*head\, Bountyhood \Boun"ty*hood\, n. Goodness; generosity. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bandytown, WV Zip code(s): 25204 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
bandwidth n. 1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess." Compare {low-bandwidth}. This generalized usage began to go mainstream after the Internet population explosion of 1993-1994. 2. Attention span. 3. On {Usenet}, a measure of network capacity that is often wasted by people complaining about how items posted by others are a waste of bandwidth. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bandwidth frequencies of a transmission channel (the width of its allocated band of frequencies). The term is often used erroneously to mean {data rate} or capacity - the amount of {data} that is, or can be, sent through a given communications circuit per second. [How is data capacity related to bandwidth?] [{Jargon File}] (2001-04-24) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
B-Method development of software using the notion of {Abstract Machine}s to specify and design software systems. The B-Method is supported by the {B-Toolkit}. Abstract Machines are specified using the Abstract Machine Notation (AMN) which is in turn based on the mathematical theory of {Generalised Substitution}s. (1995-03-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bounded bounded if there exists x in X such that for all s in S, s <= x. In other words, there is some element above all of S. If every bounded subset of X has a least upper bound then X is boundedly {complete}. ("<=" is written in {LaTeX} as {\subseteq}). (1995-02-03) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
boundedly complete In domain theory, a complete partial order is boundedly complete if every bounded subset has a least upper bound. Also called consistently complete. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Ben-hadad the standing title of the Syrian kings, meaning "the son of Hadad." (See {HADADEZER}.) (1.) The king of Syria whom Asa, king of Judah, employed to invade Israel (1 Kings 15:18). (2.) Son of the preceding, also king of Syria. He was long engaged in war against Israel. He was murdered probably by Hazael, by whom he was succeeded (2 Kings 8:7-15), after a reign of some thirty years. (3.) King of Damascus, and successor of his father Hazael on the throne of Syria (2 Kings 13:3, 4). His misfortunes in war are noticed by Amos (1:4). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Benhadad, son of Hadad, or noise |