UNBIND (unbound)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: unbound   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does unbind mean? 

• UNBIND (verb)
  The verb UNBIND has 1 sense:

1. untie or unfasten

  Familiarity information: UNBIND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNBIND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they unbind    ... he / she / it unbinds   
Past simple: unbound   
Past participle: unbound   
-ing form: unbinding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Untie or unfasten

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

unbind the feet of this poor woman

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

detach (cause to become detached or separated; take off)

Sentence frames:

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

Antonym:

bind (make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope)

 Context examples 

A measurement of the free, unbound cortisol in a biological specimen.

(Free Cortisol Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the amount of free, unbound cortisol present in a sample.

(Free Cortisol Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

This results in low levels of free iron and decreases inorganic, unbound iron-related toxicities thereby allowing for administration of higher doses of iron as compared to other iron-containing formulations.

(Iron Isomaltoside 1000, NCI Thesaurus)

DTPA may chelate metallic moieties of unbound, extracellular radioimmunotherapeutics, thereby aggregating radioimmunotherapeutics locally to higher concentrations, and improving tumor cell radiocytotoxicity, while sparing normal tissues from the radiocytotoxic effects.

(Pentetic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the amount of unbound glycerol in a biological specimen.

(Free Glycerol Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Compared to the administration of unbound TNF, colloidal gold-bound TNF may improve the efficacy and safety of TNF administration by delivering TNF specifically to tumor tissue.

(Colloidal gold-bound tumor necrosis factor, NCI Thesaurus)

We belayed the fore down-haul; but the sail was split, and we hauled down the yard, and got the sail into the ship, and unbound all the things clear of it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And as he felt pity for them, he raised the ladder, and climbed up, unbound one of them after the other, and brought down all seven.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They showed that the unbound spike actually shifts among 3 distinct configurations.

(The Structure and Dynamics of HIV Surface Spikes, NIH)

Pentetic acid chelates with the metallic radioisotopic moieties of unbound, extracellular radioimmunotherapeutic agents, resulting in higher specific tumor cell binding of radioimmunotherapeutic agents; this results in improved tumor cell radiocytotoxicity and the sparing of normal cells and tissues from the radiocytotoxic effects of these agents.

(Pentetic acid calcium, NCI Thesaurus)