bind
verb
[ bʌɪnd ]
• tie or fasten (something) tightly together.
• "they bound her hands and feet"
Similar:
tie,
tie up,
fasten (together),
hold together,
secure,
make fast,
attach,
rope,
strap,
lash,
truss,
tether,
hitch,
chain,
fetter,
pinion,
shackle,
hobble,
moor,
• stick together or cause to stick together in a single mass.
• "mix the flour with the coconut and enough egg white to bind them"
• cause (people) to feel united.
• "it's music that has bound us together"
Similar:
unite,
join,
bond,
knit together,
draw together,
yoke together,
• impose a legal or contractual obligation on.
• "a party who signs a document will normally be bound by its terms"
• fix together and enclose (the pages of a book) in a cover.
• "a small, fat volume, bound in red morocco"
• trim (the edge of a piece of material) with a decorative strip.
• "a frill with the edges bound in a contrasting colour"
• (of a quantifier) be applied to (a given variable) so that the variable falls within its scope. For example, in an expression of the form ‘For every x, if x is a dog, x is an animal’, the universal quantifier is binding the variable x.
• (of a rule or set of grammatical conditions) determine the relationship between (coreferential noun phrases).
bind
noun
• a problematical situation.
• "he is in a bind that gets worse with every passing minute"
Similar:
predicament,
awkward situation,
quandary,
dilemma,
plight,
difficult situation,
cleft stick,
mess,
quagmire,
impasse,
double bind,
spot,
tight spot,
hole,
• a statutory constraint.
• "the moral bind of the law"
• another term for tie.
• another term for bine.
Origin:
Old English bindan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German binden, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit bandh .
