To cohere or stick together in a mass. Example: Just to make the cheese more binding
To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. Example: I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while.
To exert a binding or restraining influence. Example: These are the ties that bind.
To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc. Example: to bind grain in bundles to bind a prisoner
To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind. Example: Frost binds the earth.
To couple.
To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie. Example: to bind the conscience to bind by kindness bound by affection commerce binds nations to each other
To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
To place under legal obligation to serve. Example: to bind an apprentice bound out to service
To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something. Example: to bind a belt about one to bind a compress upon a wound
To cover, as with a bandage. Example: to bind up a wound
To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation. Example: Certain drugs bind the bowels.
To put together in a cover, as of books. Example: The three novels were bound together.
To make two or more elements stick together.
To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
To complain; to whine about something.
(with infinitive) Obliged (to). Example: You are not legally bound to reply.
(of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
(of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
Constipated; costive.
Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
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