bound vs medial

bound

adj
  • That cannot stand alone as a free word. 

  • Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of). 

  • Very likely (to), certain to 

  • Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound. 

  • Obliged (to). 

  • Constrained by a quantifier. 

  • Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound. 

verb
  • To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of. 

  • To be the bound of. 

  • I bound the splint to my leg. 

  • To leap, move by jumping. 

  • The rabbit bounded down the lane. 

  • To cause to leap. 

noun
  • A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. 

  • A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values. 

  • A sizeable jump, great leap. 

  • A spring from one foot to the other in dancing. 

medial

adj
  • (of a speech sound) In the middle of a word. 

  • Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it. 

  • Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ. 

  • Closer to the addressee. 

  • Of or pertaining to a mean or average. 

  • Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media. 

  • (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. 

noun
  • One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word. 

  • Any of various things that occur in the middle. 

How often have the words bound and medial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )