bound form

noun

1. a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form ( def 2 ).

Example Sentences

About 600 copies are sold at news stands and 500 are brought out at the end of the year in bound form.

From Project Gutenberg

Rounding the big poplar, she beheld a shapeless, blanket-swathed, rope-bound form lumped against the trunk.

From Project Gutenberg

Volume I is to be had only in its bound form, and the number of copies is limited.

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