bound form

noun

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 ).

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

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

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

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