bind
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *bindaną
Proto-West Germanic *bindan
Old English bindan
Middle English binden
English bind
From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéndʰ-e-ti, from *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
See also West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, binden, German binden, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk binde, Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish binda; also 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.
Inflected forms:
form: binds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: binding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bound
pos: verb
tags: past
form: binded
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
form: bound
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: binded
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: bounden
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
rare
form: ybound
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: ybounden
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: binds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To tie; to confine by any ligature.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They that reap must sheaf and bind.
gloss: To cohere or stick together in a mass.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We’ll throw it in just to make the cheese more binding.
unlocks their [clay’s] binding Quality.
gloss: To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while.
gloss: To exert a binding or restraining influence.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: These are the ties that bind.
gloss: To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To bind grain in bundles.
To bind a prisoner.
gloss: To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Gravity binds the planets to the sun.
Frost binds the earth.
He bindeth the flouds from ouerflowing, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he foorth to light.
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?
gloss: To couple.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: to bind the conscience.
I am much bounden to your Maieſty.
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.
Who made our Laws to bind us, not himſelf,
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?
gloss: To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
pos: verb
gloss: To place under legal obligation to serve.
pos: verb
examples: To bind an apprenticeship.
To bound out to service.
gloss: To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: To bind a belt about one.
To bind a compress upon a wound.
gloss: To cover, as with a bandage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To bind up a wound.
gloss: To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Certain drugs bind the bowels.
gloss: To put together in a cover, as of books.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The three novels were bound together.
gloss: To make two or more elements stick together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We bind the variable n to the value 2, and xs to "abcd".
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[…]
gloss: To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To complain; to whine about something.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: "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?"
gloss: To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I haven't binded since I got my top surgery.
I hear binder tech has improved since I last bound.
gloss: That which binds or ties.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: the Maróczy Bind
gloss: The indurated clay of coal mines, or other overlying substances such as sandstone or shale.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: 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
bellbind
bindless
bind rune
bindweed
cornbind
double bind
green-bind
keybind
Maróczy bind
time bind
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: bindi