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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

bounds

· IPA /baʊndz/
01 n. the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something; as, the fotball was caught out of bounds.
  1. 1.
    the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something; as, the fotball was caught out of bounds.
  2. 2.
    the greatest possible extent or degree of something.
Syn. boundary, bound. — Syn. -- limit, boundary.