bind

  • 31bind — 1 verb past tense and past participle bound, 1 TIE/FASTEN (T) formal or literary a) to tie someone so that they cannot move or escape: They bound my arms and legs with rope. | bound and gagged (=tied up, and with cloth tied around your mouth so… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 32bind — [[t]baɪnd[/t]] v. bound, bind•ing, n. 1) to fasten or secure with or as if with a band 2) to encircle with a band or ligature: to bind one s hair with a ribbon[/ex] 3) to bandage (often fol. by up): to bind up one s wounds[/ex] 4) to fix in place …

    From formal English to slang

  • 33bind —   See tie.   Also: pū ā, kāo o, ho ohīpu u, hauhoa, hauhō, hāwele, nīpe a, awaiāulu, pu aka, kāpola;    ♦ bind tightly, lawa lua, kama aha, pūlawa, pōlena, puaniki;    ♦ bind up, nunu;    ♦ bind on, ōmau, hume;    ♦ bind beforehand, hele honua;… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 34bind — [c]/baɪnd / (say buynd) verb (bound, binding) –verb (t) 1. to make fast with a band or bond. 2. to swathe or bandage. 3. to fasten around; fix in place by girding. 4. to cause to cohere or harden. 5. to unite by any legal or moral tie: bound by… …

  • 35bind — bindable, adj. /buynd/, v., bound, binding, n. v.t. 1. to fasten or secure with a band or bond. 2. to encircle with a band or ligature: She bound her hair with a ribbon. 3. to swathe or bandage (often fol. by up): to bind up one s wounds. 4. to… …

    Universalium

  • 36bind — 1. To confine or encircle with a band or bandage. 2. To join together with a band or ligature. 3. To combine or unite molecules by means of reactive groups, either in the molecules per se or in a chemical added for that purpose; frequently used… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 37bind — 01. You can [bind] the newspapers together with this string. 02. The packages were [bound] together with string and tape. 03. The prisoners were seated on the floor with their hands [bound] behind their backs. 04. We put a spiral [binding] on the …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 38bind — {{11}}bind (n.) anything that binds, in various senses, late O.E., from BIND (Cf. bind) (v.). Meaning tight or awkward situation is from 1851. {{12}}bind (v.) O.E. bindan to tie up with bonds (literally and figuratively), also to make captive; to …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 39Bind — Things known as BIND or Bind include: *BIND the Berkeley Internet Name Domain, a DNS server *Bind (wicca) The Wiccan practice of stopping one s ability to do something through magical means. *Bookbinding *Bondage *Foot binding *When using monads… …

    Wikipedia

  • 40bind — [OE] Band, bend, bind, bond, and bundle can all be traced back ultimately to an Indo European base *bhendh , which was also the source of Sanskrit bandh ‘bind’ and Greek peisma ‘cable’. In the case of bind, the immediate precursor of Old English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins