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

They also, when bound, form a diary exclusively of travels.

From How to Camp Out by Gould, John Mead

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

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various