'BIND' definitions:
Definition of 'bind'
From: WordNet
noun
Something that hinders as if with bonds
verb
Stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?" [syn: adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to]
verb
Create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" [syn: bind, tie, attach, bond]
verb
Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope; "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women" [ant: unbind]
verb
Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose [syn: bind, bandage]
verb
Secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed" [syn: tie down, tie up, bind, truss]
verb
Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise" [syn: oblige, bind, hold, obligate]
verb
Provide with a binding; "bind the books in leather"
verb
Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord; "They tied their victim to the chair" [syn: tie, bind] [ant: unbrace, unlace, untie]
verb
Form a chemical bond with; "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
verb
Cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you" [syn: constipate, bind]
Definition of 'Bind'
From: GCIDE
- Bind \Bind\, n.
- 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]
Definition of 'Bind'
From: GCIDE
- Bind \Bind\, v. t. [imp. Bound; p. p. Bound, formerly Bounden; p. pr. & vb. n. Binding.] [AS. bindan, perfect tense band, bundon, p. p. bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh (for bhandh) to bind, cf. Gr. ? (for ?) cable, and L. offendix. [root]90.]
- 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]
Definition of 'Bind'
From: GCIDE
- Bind \Bind\, v. i.
- 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]
Synonyms of 'bind'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accept obligation,
- adjoin,
- afterthought,
- agglutinate,
- agree to,
- ally,
- anchor,
- annoyance,
- answer for,
- apply,
- apprentice,
- article,
- associate,
- attach,
- band,
- bandage,
- bar,
- be answerable for,
- be responsible for,
- be security for,
- befringe,
- belt,
- bend,
- bind over,
- bind up,
- block,
- block up,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- border,
- bore,
- bother,
- bound,
- brace,
- bracket,
- braze,
- bridle,
- bundle,
- bung,
- bureaucratic delay,
- caulk,
- cause,
- cause to,
- cement,
- chain,
- chink,
- choke,
- choke off,
- choke up,
- cinch,
- clog,
- clog up,
- clutch,
- commit,
- compel,
- complication,
- congest,
- connect,
- constipate,
- constrain,
- contract,
- cork,
- correlate,
- couple,
- cover,
- crunch,
- dam,
- dam up,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detention,
- dilemma,
- do up,
- double take,
- dragging,
- draw a parallel,
- drive,
- edge,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- enchain,
- encircle,
- enforce,
- enframe,
- engage,
- entrammel,
- equate,
- fasten,
- fetter,
- fill,
- fill up,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- fix,
- force,
- foul,
- frame,
- fringe,
- fuse,
- gird,
- girdle,
- girt,
- girth,
- glue,
- go bail for,
- gum,
- gyve,
- halt,
- hamper,
- handcuff,
- hang-up,
- have,
- have an understanding,
- hell to pay,
- hem,
- hindrance,
- hobble,
- hog-tie,
- hold,
- holdup,
- hopple,
- hot water,
- how-do-you-do,
- identify,
- imbroglio,
- impel,
- indenture,
- interim,
- interrelate,
- irritant,
- irritation,
- jam,
- lace,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lap,
- lash,
- leash,
- line,
- link,
- list,
- logjam,
- make,
- make fast,
- make imperative,
- make incumbent,
- manacle,
- march,
- marge,
- margin,
- marginate,
- mess,
- mix,
- moor,
- morass,
- moratorium,
- obligate,
- oblige,
- obstipate,
- obstruct,
- obstruction,
- ordeal,
- pack,
- paperasserie,
- parallel,
- parallelize,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- paste,
- pause,
- peg down,
- picket,
- pickle,
- pin down,
- pinch,
- pinion,
- pledge,
- plight,
- plug,
- plug up,
- predicament,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- purfle,
- purl,
- put in irons,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- relate,
- relativize,
- reprieve,
- require,
- respite,
- restrain,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- rim,
- rope,
- saddle with,
- scrape,
- secure,
- set off,
- shackle,
- shake hands on,
- side,
- skirt,
- slough,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- solder,
- spile,
- splice,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stanch,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stench,
- stew,
- stick,
- stick together,
- sticky wicket,
- stop,
- stop up,
- stoppage,
- stopper,
- stopple,
- strait,
- straitjacket,
- straits,
- strap,
- stuff,
- stuff up,
- suspension,
- swaddle,
- swamp,
- swathe,
- take the vows,
- tether,
- tie,
- tie down,
- tie up,
- tie-up,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- time lag,
- trammel,
- trial,
- tricky spot,
- trim,
- truss,
- undertake,
- unholy mess,
- use force upon,
- verge,
- vexation,
- wait,
- wed,
- weld,
- wire,
- wrap,
- wrap up,
- wreathe
Acronyms for 'BIND'
From: V.E.R.A.
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