bound form

American  

noun

1. a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated.

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Example Sentences

Shigeyoshi Otosaka, an oceanographer and marine chemist at the Atmospheric and Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo says that the organically bound form of tritium could accumulate in fish and marine organisms.

From Scientific American • Jun. 23, 2023

Carbaminohemoglobin is the bound form of hemoglobin and carbon dioxide.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Professor Zepplin pulled up short when his glances finally came to rest on the bound form of the mountaineer; Stacy Brown's eyes grew large and Walter Perkins gasped.

From The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers Or, On the Trail of the Border Bandits by Patchin, Frank Gee

Thad saw a movement of the bound form.

From The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol by Carter, Herbert

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

From The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women by Flower, Sydney Blanshard