the word 'bound'

[perfect stranger]

The word "bound".

The verb tense means 'to leap forward', but the adjective of the word means the inability to do the same. Does this make sense?

[smokingfrog]

yes

[Bhoy]

I’m bound for the hills.

[oldfart]

Ah, but the plural of “spouse” certainly could be “spice.”-

[Omedalus]

Yes! Or “oversight”. It means both the process of carefully monitoring something, and the act of failing to notice something.

“The failure of the engine was due to an oversight by the technician.”

“The engine performed admirably thanks to the careful oversight of the technician.”

This led me, in junior high, to grossly misunderstand what a “Senate Oversight Committee” is supposed to do. (Or maybe not misunderstand at all.)

[Vendome]

[RegulatorCountry]

Ah, but the plural of “spouse” certainly could be “spice.”

But then there's the metamorphosis into "spite" after a decade or two.

[MestaMachine]

The old prof ran screaming from his lab. "Flies can hear! I can prove it."
Everyone gathered to watch.
The prof released a captive fly with the words. "Fly, fly!"
And the fly flew.
He recaptured the fly and cut off its wings. He released it again shouting, "Fly, fly!"
But the fly fell.
"SEE!" he shouted. "When you cut off their wings, they go deaf!"

I know. I know...

[ExGeeEye]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sanction Occasionally, a word can have contradictory meanings. Such a case is represented by sanction, which can mean both "to allow, encourage" and "to punish so as to deter." It is a borrowing from the Latin word sncti, meaning "a law or decree that is sacred or inviolable." In English, the word is first recorded in the mid-1500s in the meaning "law, decree," but not long after, in about 1635, it refers to "the penalty enacted to cause one to obey a law or decree." Thus from the beginning two fundamental notions of law were wrapped up in it: law as something that permits or approves and law that forbids by punishing. From the noun, a verb sanction was created in the 18th century meaning "to allow by law," but it wasn't until the second half of the 20th century that it began to mean "to punish (for breaking a law)."

[Vendome]

 

[kenavi]

You old bounder you!

[dangus]

I’m confused. I’m bound for England. Am I moving, or can I not move?

[dangus]

Good thing I’m not bound for Virginia. It’s bound to make my wife jealous. And since I’m bound to her, I’m bound to bound to her.

[Constitution Day]

As long as you aren't Bound For The Floor, you'll be fine.

[Vendome]

LOL

[davius]

I used math or equation functions at least, to explain the relationships and relative values of seldom, often, rarely, never, and always to a Turkish ESL student.

On another note, how can you stand sitting there?

[ConservativeChris]

OK everyone else has,

Two wrongs don’t make a right, three lefts do.

[grey_whiskers]

As I was already bound to her, I was bound to bound to her side, even though such an action put me out of bounds.

Cheers!