What's the difference between bound and fettered?

Bound


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Bind
  • (p. p.) of Bind
  • (n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
  • (v. t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
  • (v. t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
  • (v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
  • (v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball.
  • (v. t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
  • (v. t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
  • (n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
  • (n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
  • (n.) Spring from one foot to the other.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Bind.
  • (p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
  • (p. p. & a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
  • (p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
  • (p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
  • (p. p. & a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
  • (p. p. & a.) Constipated; costive.
  • (v.) Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (2) The results demonstrated that K2PtCl4 was bound to a greater degree than CDDP in this system with 3-5 and 1-2 platinum atoms respectively, bound per transferrin molecule.
  • (3) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
  • (4) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
  • (5) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
  • (6) For similar inotropic responses, normo- and hyperkalaemic dogs had similar levels of (Na+, K+)-ATPase inhibition and microsomal-bound digoxin.
  • (7) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
  • (8) Electron spin resonance studies indicate the formation of two vanadyl complexes that are 1:1 in vanadyl and deferoxamine, but have two or three bound hydroxamate groups.
  • (9) Treatment of the bound F1-ATPase with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan prevented complete release of the enzyme by ATP.
  • (10) Only estrogenic hormones are bound with high affinity.
  • (11) Plasma for beta-endorphin assay was preincubated with sepharose-bound anti-beta-lipotropin to remove beta-lipotropin that cross-reacted with the beta-endorphin RIA.
  • (12) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
  • (13) Freshly isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles contain 0.05 mol of tightly bound ADP and 0.03 mol of tightly bound ATP per mol of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3).
  • (14) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
  • (15) Immunoabsorption studies showed that these four antibodies bound to the same molecule as OKT9, an antibody to the transferrin receptor.
  • (16) We investigated this suppression quantitatively, using a chemical assay for cell-bound and dissolved capsular polysaccharide.
  • (17) Only IgG2a and IgG2b myeloma proteins bound readily to IC-21 Fc-receptors, the former in nonaggregated as well as aggregated form, the latter only as aggregated complexes.
  • (18) When antibodies were bound to cell-surface DPP IV at 4 degrees C, the immune complex remained stable for more than 1 h after rewarming to 37 degrees C, despite ongoing metabolic and membrane transport processes.
  • (19) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
  • (20) Inhibition of fast axonal transport by an antibody specific for kinesin provides direct evidence that kinesin is involved in the translocation of membrane-bounded organelles in axons.

Fettered


Definition:

  • (a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But last week Labour's justice spokesman, Sadiq Khan, accused Clarke of making "inaccurate and misleading" claims about the government's secret courts bill and warned that the judge's discretion would be fettered to such an extent that it would be "a judicial decision in name only".
  • (2) The open margins of frog COS disks have recently been shown to possess a distinctive lattice of membrane-associated components (Fetter and Corless: Invest.
  • (3) Every day, our life is fettered by dozens of big and small laws.
  • (4) Linear dependence was found between the height of children and average height of both parents in the group of 100 619 children and parents (Fetter et al.
  • (5) The functional differentiation of restrictive disorders between forms with lung retraction(fibrosis, scarring) and with lung fettering (pleural thickening) is important for adequate correction of complications during the intensive care phase.
  • (6) Freud retraces the path of our problematic symptoms to a fund of repressed sexual and libidinal energy, whose fettered strivings results in overt neuroses.
  • (7) These structural features of COS open margins suggest several revisions of our earlier model of disk morphogenesis (Corless and Fetter: J. Comp.
  • (8) Clarke signalled that he would sweep away aspects of the statutory sentencing framework in England and Wales that "unhelpfully fetters" the ability of judges to make the sentence fit the crime.
  • (9) "[We] strongly urge that a way is found to limit the use of superinjunctions as far as is possible and to make clear that they are not intended to fetter the fundamental rights of the press to report the proceedings of parliament."
  • (10) DRGs were used as the basis for Medicare's prospective payment system, but John D. Thompson and Robert B. Fetter, winners of the 1992 Baxter Foundation Prize for Health Services Research, say things haven't turned out exactly as they'd expected.
  • (11) "If the media is fettered then it is in effect saying that all of us as individuals are having their own right to freedom of expression interfered with.
  • (12) So if they share with a rugby league club, we can’t be fettered as to when those clubs can play.
  • (13) They fettered his mouth with chains, And tied his hands to the rock of the dead.
  • (14) It is proposed that Alcoholics Anonymous's continued domination of the alcoholism treatment field has fettered innovation, precluded early intervention and limited treatment strategies.
  • (15) In addition to a lipid bilayer component (Corless, Fetter, and Costello: J. Comp.
  • (16) Syrian refugees in Scotland: cold weather but warm welcome Read more In a statement before the Holyrood members’ debate, the coalition, led by the Scottish Refugee Council, argues: “Such a scrutiny and accountability gap is serious in inter-parliamentary terms as these provisions impact on and may even alter the legislative competence of the Scottish parliament as well as in terms of fettering the capability of that parliament to safeguard the integrity of its housing and eviction law; its duties on local authorities to safeguard the wellbeing of children; and the obligations it has placed on councils in Scotland that are inclusive of unaccompanied migrant children who are classed as looked after as well as care leavers as they transition into adulthood.” The House of Lords constitution committee criticised the bill on similar grounds in early January.
  • (17) However, ministers do want to see a measure they regard as an unnecessary fetter on judicial discretion swept away.
  • (18) A quote from an anonymous author painted above the door lintel by owner Mike Beaumon could be the micropub motto: “Beer is the drink of men who think, and feel no fear or fetter, who do not drink to senseless sink, but drink to feel better.” • thefourcandles.co.uk , open Mon-Thurs and Sun 5pm-10.30pm, Fri and 5pm-11.30pm, lunchtimes Sat and Sun noon-3.30pm The Thirty-Nine Steps Alehouse, Broadstairs A few streets back from the Broadstairs seafront, this pub in a former pet shop was opened by local couple Kevin and Nicola Harding.
  • (19) "We have lots of rules that fetter movement," he told the Telegraph.
  • (20) Democratic politicians adapt public service priorities all the time – not always for the best, but fettered only by responsiveness to voters, not to badly drawn fixed contracts.

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