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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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Spoken Corpus Frequency
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
Those earrings were bought with blood money and given to her by a murderer, she has no business wearing them.
They went out and bought their own pillows.
Boy has he ever gravitated to it now and takes pride in it, there could be some players that, they’ll ‘yes’ you to death and go out there and want to keep doing it their way. Sergy really bought into becoming a well-rounded defenseman and it’s been fun to watch him work because that kid's got a bright future and a long one ahead.
They (anti-riot gear) will have an intimidating effect... it's going to be difficult to convince us that these things have been bought for legitimate security concerns.
We just bought our tickets this morning and came, the prices were slightly lower but not substantially.
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