bind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪnd/
ipa: /baɪn/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: binds
form: binding
form: bound
form: binded
form: bound
form: binded
form: bounden
form: ybound
form: ybounden
Etymology: From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną (compare West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, binden, German binden, Danish binde), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéndʰ-e-ti, from *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
Compare Welsh ben (“cart”), Latin offendīx (“knot, band”), Lithuanian beñdras (“partner”), Albanian bind (“to convince, to awe, to spell”), Ancient Greek πεῖσμα (peîsma, “cable, rope”), Persian بستن (bastan, “to bind”), Sanskrit बन्धति (bándhati). Doublet of bandana.
Senses: examples: text: They that reap must sheaf and bind.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To tie; to confine by any ligature.
examples: text: We’ll throw it in just to make the cheese more binding.
text: unlocks their [clay’s] binding Quality.
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cohere or stick together in a mass.
examples: text: I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while.
glosses: To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
examples: text: These are the ties that bind.
glosses: To exert a binding or restraining influence.
examples: text: To bind grain in bundles.
text: To bind a prisoner.
synonyms: fetter
make fast
tie
fasten
restrain
glosses: To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
examples: text: Gravity binds the planets to the sun.
text: Frost binds the earth.
text: He bindeth the flouds from ouerflowing, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he foorth to light.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 28:11:
text: And ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, loe these eighteene yeeres, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 13:16:
synonyms: word: curtail
word: restrain
word: behedge
word: guard
word: bind
word: chasten
word: check
word: contain
word: vanquish
word: cork
word: curb
word: bury
word: curtail
word: dampen
word: hamshackle
word: hold back
word: hold down
word: limit
word: repress
word: restrain
word: restrict
word: shackle
word: stay
word: stifle
word: stop
word: straiten
word: subdue
word: suppress
word: throttle
word: underbring
word: withhold
word: withstrain
glosses: To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
glosses: To couple.
examples: text: to bind the conscience.
text: I am much bounden to your Maieſty.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 11, column 2:
text: In the concluding whereof Sir Thomas More so worthily handled himself, procuring in our league far more benefits unto this realm, than at that time, by the king or his council was thought possible to be compassed, that for his good service in that voyage, the king, when he after made him Lord Chancellor, caused the Duke of Norfolk openly to declare to the people, as you shall hear hereafter more at large, how much all England was bounden unto him.
ref: 1626, William Roper, S. W. Singer, The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatnes. Or The Life of Syr Thomas More Knight, sometime Lo. Chancellour of England, new revised and corrected edition, Paris [i.e. Saint-Omer]: [Printed at the English College Press], →OCLC; republished as The Life of Sir Thomas More, by His Son-in-law, William Roper, Esq. […], Chiswick, London: From the press of C[harles] Whittingham, for R. Triphook, […], 1822, →OCLC, page 36:
text: Who made our Laws to bind us, not himſelf,
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 25, line 310:
text: He'll mind, I reckon, not getting any work out'n me, but I won't be bounden to him any longer. How can he keep me if I ain't bounden to him?
ref: 1963, William A. Owens, chapter 2, in Look to the River, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum; republished as Look to the River (Texas Tradition Series; 8), Fort Worth, Tex.: Texas Christian University Press, 1988, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:
synonyms: restrain
restrict
obligate
glosses: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
topics: law
glosses: To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
examples: text: To bind an apprenticeship.
text: To bound out to service.
topics: law
synonyms: indenture
glosses: To place under legal obligation to serve.
glosses: To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
examples: text: To bind a belt about one.
text: To bind a compress upon a wound.
glosses: To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
examples: text: To bind up a wound.
synonyms: bandage
dress
glosses: To cover, as with a bandage.
examples: text: Certain drugs bind the bowels.
glosses: To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.
examples: text: The three novels were bound together.
glosses: To put together in a cover, as of books.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To make two or more elements stick together.
examples: text: We bind the variable n to the value 2, and xs to "abcd".
ref: 2008, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell, page 33:
text: You can bind an identifier to an object of a derived type, as you did earlier when you bound a string to an identifier of type obj[…]
ref: 2009, Robert Pickering, Beginning F#, page 123:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
examples: text: "But it's not much good piling up the pix if I can't sell them."
"Oh do stop binding. Think of something. How will we eat, where will we sleep?"
ref: 1980, Iris Murdoch, Nuns And Soldiers:
glosses: To complain; to whine about something.
examples: text: I haven't binded since I got my top surgery.
text: I hear binder tech has improved since I last bound.
glosses: To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
Derived terms: bindable
bindee
binder
bindery
bind hand and foot
binding knot
binding spell
bind off
bind on equip
bind on pickup
bind over
bind spell
bindstone
bind to
bindup
bind up
bind up in
debind
disbind
GTP-binding protein
hidebound
inbind
misbind
overbind
prebind
rebind
sex hormone binding globulin
sex hormone-binding globulin
sex-hormone-binding globulin
spellbind
unbind
underbind
upbind