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Bind

bʌɪnd

Bind definitions
verb
bound bind binding binds
  1. tie or fasten (something) tightly together

    "they bound her hands and feet"

    tie tie up fasten (together) hold together secure make fast attach
    • restrain (someone) by tying their hands and feet

      "the raider then bound and gagged Mr Glenn"

    • wrap (something) tightly

      "her hair was bound up in a towel"

    • bandage (a wound)

      "he cleaned the wound and bound it up with a clean dressing"

    • (of an object) be encircled by something, typically metal bands, so as to have greater strength

      "an ancient oak chest bound with brass braces"

  2. stick together or cause to stick together in a single mass

    "mix the flour with the coconut and enough egg white to bind them"

    stick cohere
    • cause (painting pigments) to form a smooth medium by mixing them with oil
    • hold by chemical bonding

      "a protein in a form that can bind DNA"

    • (of a food or medicine) make (someone) constipated

      "eating foods that are low in fibre can bind you up"

  3. cause (people) to feel united

    "it's music that has bound us together"

    unite join bond knit together draw together yoke together
  4. impose a legal or contractual obligation on

    "a party who signs a document will normally be bound by its terms"

    • be hampered or constrained by

      "Sarah did not want to be bound by a rigid timetable"

    • make a contractual or enforceable undertaking

      "the government cannot bind itself as to the form of subsequent legislation"

    • indenture (someone) as an apprentice

      "he was bound apprentice at the age of sixteen"

  5. fix together and enclose (the pages of a book) in a cover

    "a small, fat volume, bound in red morocco"

  6. trim (the edge of a piece of material) with a decorative strip

    "a frill with the edges bound in a contrasting colour"

    trim hem edge border fringe rim band
  7. (of a quantifier) be applied to (a given variable) so that the variable falls within its scope. For example, in an expression of the form ‘For every x, if x is a dog, x is an animal’, the universal quantifier is binding the variable x
  8. (of a rule or set of grammatical conditions) determine the relationship between (coreferential noun phrases)
noun
bind binds
  1. a problematical situation

    "he is in a bind that gets worse with every passing minute"

    predicament awkward situation quandary dilemma plight difficult situation cleft stick mess quagmire
    • a nuisance

      "the travelling can be a bit of a bind"

  2. a statutory constraint

    "the moral bind of the law"