BIND (bound)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bind mean? 

• BIND (noun)
  The noun BIND has 1 sense:

1. something that hinders as if with bonds

  Familiarity information: BIND used as a noun is very rare.

• BIND (verb)
  The verb BIND has 10 senses:

1. stick to firmly

2. create social or emotional ties

3. make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope

4. wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose

5. secure with or as if with ropes

6. bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted

7. provide with a binding

8. fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord

9. form a chemical bond with

10. cause to be constipated

  Familiarity information: BIND used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that hinders as if with bonds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bind" is a kind of...):

balk; baulk; check; deterrent; handicap; hinderance; hindrance; impediment (something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress)

Derivation:

bind (bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted)

• BIND (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stick to firmly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

adhere; bind; bond; hold fast; stick; stick to

Context example:

Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?

Hypernyms (to "bind" is one way to...):

attach (become attached)

Verb group:

adhere; cleave; cling; cohere; stick (come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bind"):

bind (form a chemical bond with)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

binder (something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface)

binding (the capacity to attract and hold something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Create social or emotional ties

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

attach; bind; bond; tie

Context example:

The grandparents want to bond with the child

Hypernyms (to "bind" is one way to...):

relate (have or establish a relationship to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bind"):

fixate (attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way)

befriend (become friends with)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The Chinese would bind the feet of their women

Hypernyms (to "bind" is one way to...):

attach (cause to be attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bind"):

swaddle; swathe (wrap in swaddling clothes)

encircle; gird (bind with something round or circular)

cement (make fast as if with cement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Antonym:

unbind (untie or unfasten)

Derivation:

binder (a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves)

binder (something used to tie or bind)

bindable (capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bandage; bind

Hypernyms (to "bind" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

bindable (capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond)

binding (the act of applying a bandage)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Secure with or as if with ropes

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bind; tie down; tie up; truss

Context example:

tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed

Hypernyms (to "bind" is one way to...):

confine; constrain; hold; restrain (to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement)

"Bind" entails doing...:

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bind"):

faggot; fagot (fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them)

hog-tie (tie together somebody's limbs)

faggot; faggot up; fagot (bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot)

chain up (tie up with chains)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to bind the prisoners

Derivation:

bindable (capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bind; hold; obligate; oblige

Context example:

I'll hold you by your promise

Hypernyms (to "bind" is one way to...):

relate (have or establish a relationship to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bind"):

pledge (bind or secure by a pledge)

article (bind by a contract; especially for a training period)

indent; indenture (bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant)

tie down (restrain from independence by an obligation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

bind (something that hinders as if with bonds)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Provide with a binding

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

bind the books in leather

Hypernyms (to "bind" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bind"):

rebind (provide with a new binding)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

binder (holds loose papers or magazines)

bindery (a workshop where books are bound)

binding (the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book)

binding (strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bind; tie

Context example:

They tied their victim to the chair

Hypernyms (to "bind" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bind"):

knot (tie or fasten into a knot)

lace; lace up (draw through eyes or holes)

band (bind or tie together, as with a band)

lash (bind with a rope, chain, or cord)

strap (tie with a strap)

leash; rope (fasten with a rope)

lash together (bind together with a cord or rope)

cord (bind or tie with a cord)

loop (fasten or join with a loop)

bind off; tie up (finish the last row)

retie (tie again or anew)

gag; muzzle (tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them)

truss (tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

bindable (capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond)

binder (a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Form a chemical bond with

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The hydrogen binds the oxygen

Hypernyms (to "bind" is one way to...):

adhere; bind; bond; hold fast; stick; stick to (stick to firmly)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bind"):

ligate (bind chemically)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

binder (something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface)

binding (the capacity to attract and hold something)

Sense 10

Meaning:

Cause to be constipated

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bind; constipate

Context example:

These foods tend to constipate you

Hypernyms (to "bind" is one way to...):

indispose (cause to feel unwell)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bind"):

obstipate (constipate severely)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I was so firmly bound that I could not move, and a handkerchief round my mouth prevented me from uttering a sound.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To England, therefore, I was bound, and it was understood that my union with Elizabeth should take place immediately on my return.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Four days later Holmes and I were again in the train, bound for Winchester to see the race for the Wessex Cup.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In ovary, placenta, breast, and testis, 170 kD BRX contains a LBC region preceded by 3 novel regions; C-terminal regions 4 and 5 bind to the ESR1 ligand-binding domain.

(A Kinase Anchor Protein 13, NCI Thesaurus)

So passed Sunday, and Monday morning he was hard at work, sorting clothes, while Joe, a towel bound tightly around his head, with groans and blasphemies, was running the washer and mixing soft-soap.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Polybasic regions are involved in binding PKC.

(A Kinase Anchor Protein 12, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon oral administration, MEK/Aurora kinase inhibitor BI 847325 selectively binds to and inhibits the activity of MEK, which both prevents the activation of MEK-dependent effector proteins and inhibits growth factor-mediated cell signaling.

(MEK/Aurora Kinase Inhibitor BI 847325, NCI Thesaurus)

He tore a long strip from one of his two blankets and bound the ankle tightly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Now it bound him with insentient fetters, walling his soul in darkness and silence, blocking it from the world which to him had been a riot of action.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And I was going to sea myself, to sea in a schooner, with a piping boatswain and pig-tailed singing seamen, to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for buried treasure!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)