bind

  • 41bind — [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… …

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  • 42bind — verb 1 tie with rope/fabric ADVERB ▪ tightly ▪ They bound his hands together tightly. ▪ loosely ▪ together PREPOSITION ▪ …

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  • 43BIND — ● ►en np. sg. m. ►INTERNET Berkeley Internet Name Domain (ou Daemon si vous avez affaire au programme en lui même). Implémentation d un Domain Name Server (voir DNS) réalisée par l université de Berkeley (en fait, c est un peu le DNS qui a été… …

    Dictionnaire d'informatique francophone

  • 44bind — Synonyms and related words: accept obligation, adjoin, afterthought, agglutinate, agree to, ally, anchor, annoyance, answer for, apply, apprentice, article, associate, attach, band, bandage, bar, be answerable for, be responsible for, be security …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 45bind — n. a problem; a wrinkle. □ I’ve got a little bind here I didn’t anticipate. □ Unfortunately, a new bind has slowed down the project …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 46bind — v. & n. v. (past and past part. bound) (see also BOUNDEN). 1 tr. (often foll. by to, on, together) tie or fasten tightly. 2 tr. a restrain; put in bonds. b (as bound adj.) constricted, obstructed (snowbound). 3 tr. esp. Cookery cause… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 47bind — See: DUTY BOUND, IN A BIND, MUSCLE BOUND, ROOT BOUND …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 48bind — See: DUTY BOUND, IN A BIND, MUSCLE BOUND, ROOT BOUND …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 49bind — I. verb (bound; binding) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bindan; akin to Old High German bintan to bind, Greek peisma cable, Sanskrit badhnāti he ties Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to make secure by tying b. to… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 50bind — 1) a quantity of 250 eels in 13th to 16th century England. Ten stikes makes a bind (each stike being 25 eels). Also used for other fish such as salmon. Also spelled binn 2) a collective noun (a noun that denotes a collection of persons or things… …

    Dictionary of ichthyology