Bind Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0

bind n : something that hinders as if with bonds v
1. stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?" [syn: adhere, hold fast, bond, stick, stick to]
2. create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" [syn: tie, attach, bond]
3. make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope; "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women" [ant: unbind]
4. wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose [syn: bandage]
5. secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapes and bring them to the recycling shed" [syn: tie down, tie up, truss]
6. bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise" [syn: oblige, hold, obligate]
7. form a chemical bond with; "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
8. provide with a binding; "bind the books in leather"
9. fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord; "They tied their victim to the chair" [syn: tie] [ant: untie]
10. cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you" [syn: constipate] [also: bound]

Bind Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bind \Bind\, v. i.
1. To tie; to confine by any ligature. They that reap must sheaf and bind. --Shak.
2. To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. --Mortimer.
3. To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
4. To exert a binding or restraining influence. --Locke.

Bind Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bind \Bind\, n.
1. That which binds or ties.
2. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.
3. (Metal.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of

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* Milton And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire. - Office Space

* No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. - Robert Burton

* One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. - J. R. R. Tolkien


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