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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Boughtpreter. of to buy;
Boughtnoun
Etymology: from to bow.
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.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.
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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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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 Dictionary
Boughtnoun
a flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent
Boughtnoun
the part of a sling that contains the stone
Bought
imp. & p. p. of Buy
Bought
purchased; bribed
Bought
of Buy
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bought
bawt, pa.t. and pa.p. of Buy.—Bought′en in an archaic form.
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.]
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Rank popularity for the word 'Bought' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1395
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Rank popularity for the word 'Bought' in Written Corpus Frequency: #470
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Bought in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Bought in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Bought in a Sentence
Back then, when you bought electronic things like TVs and radios, every bit of the circuits and designs were included on paper. Total open source, if you know what you're doing... you could repair a lot of things at low cost. But it's even more precious to know that you did it yourself.
I was very happy with how we had been going, we bought ourselves eight weeks that other nations didn't have, so while we were working on individual aspects of our game, other countries were still needing to qualify.
We bought with our hearts, not with our brains, we looked for the very best examples and made no compromises.
From the Gulistan Be not over much angry with thy slave; Treat him not unjustly, and pain not his feelings. True, thou mayst have bought him for ten direms; But 'twas not by thy power that he was created. There is a tradition of the Prophet--peace be upon him!--that on the day of the resurrection the greatest grief will be when the pious slave is carried to Paradise, and his worthless master is borne away to Hell.
The assets were bought with Malaysian money, we have proof that it was Malaysian money, we will now make a claim with the American government.
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