bind
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- something that hinders as if with bonds
Verb (10)
- stick to firmly“Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?”Synonyms: adherehold fastbondstickstick to
- create social or emotional ties“The grandparents want to bond with the child”Synonyms: tieattachbond
- make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope“The Chinese would bind the feet of their women”
- wrap around with something so as to cover or encloseSynonyms: bandage
- secure with or as if with ropes“tie down the prisoners”“tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed”Synonyms: tie downtie uptruss
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted“He's held by a contract”“I'll hold you by your promise”Synonyms: obligeholdobligate
- provide with a binding“bind the books in leather”
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord“They tied their victim to the chair”Synonyms: tie
- form a chemical bond with“The hydrogen binds the oxygen”
- cause to be constipated“These foods tend to constipate you”Synonyms: constipate
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner. [1913 Webster]
2.To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. [1913 Webster]
He bindeth the floods from overflowing.— Job xxviii. 11.[1913 Webster]
Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years.— Luke xiii. 16.[1913 Webster]
3.To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound. [1913 Webster]
4.To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part. [1913 Webster]
5.To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels. [1913 Webster]
6.To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment. [1913 Webster]
7.To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book. [1913 Webster]
8.Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. [1913 Webster]
Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
9.(Law) (a) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant. --Abbott. (b) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service. [1913 Webster]
To bind over, to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc.
To bind to, to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife.
To bind up in, to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in. [1913 Webster]
Syn: To fetter; tie; fasten; restrain; restrict; oblige. [1913 Webster]
1.That which binds or ties. [1913 Webster]
2.Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine. [1913 Webster]
3.(Metal.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron. --Kirwan. [1913 Webster]
4.(Mus.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes. [1913 Webster]
1.To tie; to confine by any ligature. [1913 Webster]
They that reap must sheaf and bind.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
2.To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
3.To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. [1913 Webster]
4.To exert a binding or restraining influence. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<networking> (BIND) An implementation of a DNS server developed and distributed by the University of California at Berkeley.
Many Internet hosts run BIND, and it is the ancestor of many commercial implementations.
(1997-12-15)