Definitions for bought
bɔtbought

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boughtpreter. of to buy;

2. Boughtnoun

   Etymology: from to bow.

   1. A twist; a link; a knot.

   His huge long tail wound up in hundred folds,
   Whose wreathed boughts whenever he unfolds,
   And thick entangled knots adown does slack. Fairy Q. b. i.

   Immortal verse,
   Such as the meeting soul may pierce
   In notes, with many a winding bought
   Of linked sweetness, long drawn out. John Milton.

   2. A flexure.

   The flexure of the joints is not the same in elephants as in other quadrupeds, but nearer unto those of a man; the bought of the fore-legs not directly backward, but laterally, and somewhat inward. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. i.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bought

   Bought is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film produced and released by Warner Bros. and directed by Archie Mayo. The movie stars Constance Bennett and features Ben Lyon, Richard Bennett and Dorothy Peterson. It is based on the 1930 novel Jackdaw's Strut by Harriet Henry. Warner Bros. paid Bennett an all-time high salary of $30,000 a week for her work in this film.

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1. bought

   Bought is the past tense and past participle form of the verb "buy." It refers to the action of acquiring something by exchanging money or its equivalent value, typically with the intention of keeping or using that item.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Boughtnoun

   a flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent

2. Boughtnoun

   the part of a sling that contains the stone

3. Bought

   imp. & p. p. of Buy

4. Bought

   purchased; bribed

5. Bought

   of Buy

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Bought

   bawt, pa.t. and pa.p. of Buy.—Bought′en in an archaic form.

2. Bought

   bowt, n. a bight or bend: (Spens.) a twist or coil: the bend of a sling in which the stone is placed. [See Bight.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bought' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1395

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bought' in Written Corpus Frequency: #470

How to pronounce bought?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say bought in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bought in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bought in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of bought in a Sentence

1. Bill McDermott:

   We bought always assets that are best-in-class, which are assending in value, we have never bought something that was impaired and in decline.

2. Rahul Gupta:

   Both the types of drugs have changed – from predominantly organic to predominantly synthetics – but the way drugs are bought and sold have also changed.

3. Jim Kirkland:

   We bought this business several years ago and we fly these elsewhere in the world, and certainly we haven't gotten the revenue out of it that we could if rules had been in place.

4. Marco Rubio:

   They bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses; there's no evidence whatsoever that the money's been massively poured back into the American worker.

5. Jason Kindrachuk:

   We already have issues in high-income regions of trying to get vaccines rolled out in areas that bought millions of doses and trying to figure out : how do we actually target people that are high risk versus those that maybe don't fall politically within that sphere of high-risk disease ? then you start looking at more middle - or low-income areas of the world -- they're not even at a point of being able to think about what the vaccine rollout is going to look like because of the logistical concerns, storage concerns and the fact that the majority of doses have already been bought up by the wealthiest countries in the world.

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References

1. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=bought
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bought
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bought
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=bought