BOUND FORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bound form mean? 

• BOUND FORM (noun)
  The noun BOUND FORM has 1 sense:

1. a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns

  Familiarity information: BOUND FORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOUND FORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bound form; bound morpheme

Hypernyms ("bound form" is a kind of...):

morpheme (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bound form"):

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

affix (a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form)

 Context examples 

The membrane-bound form seems to be inactive and the cytoplasmic domain may regulate trafficking and proteolytic processing (by dimerization).

(Neuregulin 2, NCI Thesaurus)

They are found throughout nature in both the free and bound form.

(Oligosaccharide, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

RAS proteins are involved in transmembrane signal transduction as monomeric GTP-binding proteins, with intrinsic GTPase activity, that alternate between an inactive GDP-bound form and an active GTP-bound form.

(p21 H-Ras Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

B cells first produce a membrane-bound form of immunoglobulin, the B cell receptor, as part of B cell differentiation.

(B Cell Receptor Complex Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Proteins that catalyze the release and exchange of GDP for GTP from GTP-binding regulatory proteins, which are active in the GTP-bound form.

(Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

A guanine nucleotide exchange factor that acts to restore EIF-2 to its GTP bound form.

(eIF2B, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

BAFF is found as a membrane bound form in T cells and a soluble form that is released from the cell to stimulate B cell proliferation and differentiation.

(B-Cell Immune Response Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Human MCF2 Oncoprotein is a product of a mutated variant (Oncogene MCF2) of widely expressed MCF2 Gene, which encodes 4 alternative variants of 66-kDa MCF2 (DBL) p66 Protein, a cytoplasmic and membrane phosphoserine guanine nucleotide exchange factor that modulates the activity of small RHO GTPases by promoting conversion from GDP- to GTP-bound form. p66 contains a CRAL-TRIO domain, a DH domain, a PH domain and a spectrin repeat; the DH domain catalyzes GDP-GTP exchange.

(DBL Oncoprotein, NCI Thesaurus)

Human Oncogene MCF2 is a mutated variant of widely expressed MCF2 Gene, which encodes 4 alternative variants of 66-kDa MCF2 (DBL) p66 Protein, a cytoplasmic and membrane phosphoserine guanine nucleotide exchange factor that modulates the activity of small RHO GTPases by promoting conversion from GDP- to GTP-bound form. p66 contains a CRAL-TRIO domain, a DH domain, a PH domain and a spectrin repeat; the DH domain catalyzes GDP-GTP exchange.

(Oncogene MCF2, NCI Thesaurus)