bind1 verbbind2 noun
bindbind1 /baɪnd/ ●●○ verb (past tense and past participle bound /baʊnd/) 
WORD ORIGINbind1
Origin:
Old English bindanVERB TABLE
bind
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | bind |
| he, she, it | binds | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | bound |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have bound |
| he, she, it | has bound | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had bound |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will bind |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have bound |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am binding |
| he, she, it | is binding | |
| you, we, they | are binding | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was binding |
| you, we, they | were binding | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been binding |
| he, she, it | has been binding | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been binding |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be binding |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been binding |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He was found bound to a chair, barely alive.
- It was like being bound hand and foot to a torturer's chair.
- The hostages had been bound and gagged and left in a corner of the room.
- The hydrogen molecule binds with the oxygen molecule.
- The treaty binds the two countries to reduce the number of nuclear weapons.
- Use 2 tablespoons of water to bind the flour and butter mixture.
- The snakes multiplied, swarming over her, binding her more tightly to the chair.
- Wires upon wires wove around him, binding him to his amplifiers.
Longman Language Activatorto prevent someone from escaping by tying rope around them
to tie someone's arms and legs with rope so that they cannot move: tie somebody up/tie up somebody: · The soldiers tied them up and beat them.· Mrs Bennett had been tied up and left in the back of the van.
to prevent a person or animal from escaping by tying them with rope etc: tie somebody to something: · The terrorists tied the hostages to their chairs.· Her horse was tied to a tree.tie somebody's hands/feet together: · The kidnappers had tied his hands together and blindfolded him.
to tie someone's arms, legs etc so that they cannot move at all - used in literature or in newspapers: · The hostages had been bound and gagged and left in a corner of the room.bind somebody hand and foot: · It was like being bound hand and foot to a torturer's chair.
to tie someone's legs or arms with a thick chain: · The prisoners were shackled together and forced to walk 600 miles across country.
to tie an animal such as a dog or horse to something, using a rope, so that it can move around but cannot walk away: · The farmer tethered a goat in the field and left it there for the day.tether something to something: · My horse had been tethered to a post, but somehow it escaped.
WORD SETSacetate, nounacrylic, adjectivealpaca, nounangora, nounastrakhan, nounbaize, nounbatik, nounbind, verbbinding, nounbolt, nounbroadloom, nounbrocade, nounbrushed, adjectivebuckram, nounbuckskin, nounburlap, nouncalico, nouncambric, nouncamelhair, nouncandlewick, nouncanvas, nouncard, nouncard, verbcarpeting, nouncashmere, nouncatgut, nouncellulose, nounchamois, nouncheesecloth, nounchenille, nounchiffon, nounchintz, nounchintzy, adjectivecoal tar, nouncoir, nouncorduroy, nouncotton, nouncotton gin, nouncrepe, nouncrisp, adjectiveDacron, noundamask, noundenim, noundowny, adjectivedrapery, noundrill, noundrugget, nounductile, adjectiveelastic, nounelastic, adjectiveelectroplate, verbfelt, nounfibre, nounfustian, nounhaircloth, nounhank, nounhardboard, nounhomespun, adjectivekapok, nounkhaki, nounkid, nounlace, nounlamé, nounleather, nounleatherette, nounlinen, nounlint, nounLycra, nounmaterial, nounmercerized cotton, nounmerino, nounmesh, nounmoleskin, nounmoquette, nounmorocco, nounmuslin, nounnap, nounnetting, nounnonflammable, adjectivenylon, nounoilcloth, nounorgandie, nounpadding, nounpaisley, nounpattern, nounpelt, nounpercale, nounpigskin, nounpile, nounpine, nounpinewood, nounpique, nounpitch pine, nounplaid, nounplastic, adjectiveplating, nounplush, nounpolyester, nounpoplin, nounpre-shrunk, adjectiveraw, adjectiverawhide, nounrayon, nounreinforced concrete, nounremnant, nounrendering, nounresin, nounresonant, adjectiverope, nounsackcloth, nounsatin, nounscratchy, adjectiveseam, nounseersucker, nounselvedge, nounserge, nounsheepskin, nounsheer, adjectivesilk, nounsilken, adjectivesilkworm, nounspin, verbspindle, nounspinner, nounspinning wheel, nounstockinette, nounstretch, nounsuede, nounsuiting, nounswag, nounswatch, nountaffeta, nountan, verbtanner, nounterrycloth, nounTerylene, nounthread, nountimber, nountowelling, nountulle, nountweed, nountweedy, adjectivetwill, nounupholstery, nounvelour, nounvelvet, nounvoile, nounwatered silk, nounwebbing, nounwool, nounworsted, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Both sides in the dispute have agreed to binding arbitration. He left his victim bound and gagged (=tied up and with something over their mouth that stops them speaking). This was bound to happen sooner or later. a legally binding agreement
(=tied up, and with cloth tied around your mouth so you cannot speak)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=have to obey the conditions of an official agreement)· India is bound by the agreements signed under the World Trade Organisation.
(=an official agreement that must be obeyed)· Lawyers are in the process of drafting a legally binding agreement between both parties.
Both sides in the dispute have agreed to binding arbitration. formal (=have a duty to do something)· Soldiers are here to do a job and are duty-bound to complete it.
(=it is going there)· Johnson boarded a flight bound for Caracas.
He left his victim bound and gagged (=tied up and with something over their mouth that stops them speaking). This was bound to happen sooner or later. (=feel that you should do something, because it is morally right or your duty to do it)· My father felt honour bound to help his sister.
a legally binding agreement (=have sworn an oath)· These chiefs were bound to him by oaths of loyalty.
(=something that you must legally do, especially because of an agreement)· These clauses are legally binding obligations on both parties.
(=have to obey them)· Solicitors are bound by strict rules that regulate their professional conduct.
(=to have promised seriously to do something)· She told him she was bound by a vow not to tell any other person.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· In other words, Ahab fails to realize that good and evil are inextricably bound together and can not be separated.
· Talks resume next week in Bonn on legally binding emission reduction targets that Washington has rejected.· Janzen offers something besides going to court: mediation and arbitration services that are just as legally binding.· Home helps felt that they are being legally bound not to care!· The goal is to write a legally binding treaty that would be signed in December by as many countries as possible.· Although these communications are not legally binding, they do give member states strong guidance on legal and taxation issues.· You must also sign a written contract and receive a copy of it for the contract to be legally binding.· To make it legally binding the protocol requires ratification by countries with at least 55 % of the developed world's emissions.· There were indications last week that Yeltsin had dropped his insistence that this be a legally binding document.
· Or he had been, had been silly, was bound over again?· Two weeks later, he appeared in superior court for a preliminary hearing, and he was bound over for trial.· The brothers, aged 24 and 27, agreed to be bound over after denying the offence.· He was bound over to keep the peace by magistrates.· Last year he was bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep.· They were bound over to keep the peace.· All the defendants were bound over for two years on a personal bail of £350 and some were also fined.
· Quarks bind together to make up larger particles such as the protons and neutrons found in the atomic nucleus.· The boats are made mostly of rice straw, woven and bound together.· They could be bound together by the belief, found in Bacon, that religious controversies were an impediment to science.· A.. The Democratic Party was an unnatural coalition, bound together only by the name Democrat.· Both camps have long been bound together by a shared interest in the punter's pound.· I want to know what binds together your various personalities.· Because we are bound together, although he doesn't see it that way, by our interest in Belinda.· They had been bound together to make them easier to move.
· I also bound up with my brochure, a number of photographs; for I had taken two cameras abroad.· These very weak stones are rich in water, which is bound up in both hydrated salts and clay minerals.· These are intimately bound up together, not least because of the way in which the marriage contract is defined.· But they were important in their time, and their families were bound up with Fred Taylor all his life.· According to a long and dominant tradition, the physical is bound up with the spatial.· It was coming out too bound up in hurtful things.· All these things were bound up together and by defying his father he was in effect abandoning them.· Like that of Curgenven, his own rising professional career was bound up with a commitment to expansionist sanitary reform.
NOUN· But no such agreement will be binding on third parties save to the extent that they have knowledge thereof.· The agreement bound the country to a programme of land reform whose implementation would have cost billions of dollars.· Only those who are party to an agreement are bound by the agreement.
· However, in April, anyone taking out a new pension contract will be bound by the new rules.· You must also sign a written contract and receive a copy of it for the contract to be legally binding.· Where the receiver enters into a new contract this will be binding on the company.· Any company doing federal contract work is absolutely bound by affirmative action requirements and equal employment laws to cover you.· Hence social contracts may bind, not all members of a society, but members of some group within society.· Adoption is different from novation and also appears to be distinguishable from merely acting as though the contract were binding on the company.· This had led to a lengthy series of negotiations over the sort of contracts which should bind printers in his new plant.· The contract I signed legally binds the station as much as it does me.
· In any event, none binds this court.· But the truth is that nothing binds the court except what the court says binds it.· Decisions of the House of Lords are binding upon all other courts trying civil or criminal cases.· Further, it is not binding on this court.· But the state Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 140 contains a lifetime ban, a decision binding on federal courts.· The decisions of this court are binding on all inferior courts trying civil or criminal cases, including divisional courts.
· If the patient had the requisite capacity, they are bound by his decision.· The Court of Appeal is bound by decisions of the House of Lords and by its own earlier decisions.· In deciding appeals before them, SSATs are bound by decisions of the Commissioners.· Why should the Court of Appeal be bound by its own decisions?
· But in almost all other matters, they were bound to a higher law.
· Under the Arab League Charter a resolution passed by a majority of votes was binding only on member states voting in favour.· It aims at binding the members of the community together in a libidinal way as well and employs every means to that end.· The scope of that Article was to bind member States to treaties concluded by the organisation, not contracts under municipal law.· A Directive binds member states to certain specific objectives, but leaves them to implement the necessary measures through national laws.· Hence social contracts may bind, not all members of a society, but members of some group within society.· Aforementioned principles and provisions are binding on all Member State authorities, including the courts.
· Treaties bind consenting parties only, and strangers to any treaty are legally unaffected by it.· But no such agreement will be binding on third parties save to the extent that they have knowledge thereof.· The introduction to the heads will specify that the clause is binding on both parties and is not subject to contract.· Statutory regulations binding on both parties required crawling boards to be used on fragile roofs.· Article 34 of the Vienna Convention applies to itself so that like other treaties it can not bind third parties.· His decisions are binding on both parties, subject only to the High Court on a point of law.
· A soluble form of this protein could bind to the virus and prevent it from binding to human T cells.· These compounds are lipid soluble and therefore highly protein bound in the plasma.· Therefore although both proteins bind to the same site, the details of their structural interactions must differ.· Elderly patients have decreased protein binding of AEDs resulting in a higher unbound fraction.· Recombinant Oct-11 protein binds specifically to an octamer sequence invitro.· The hope is that these peptides might compete with the virus proteins for binding to the receptor molecules.· These differences help explain why these homologous proteins bind a variety of ligands with different affinities.
· It may be too bound by rules and not allow individuals to exercise discretion within their work. 5.· The electronic frontier requires its pioneers to be resourceful in defending themselves in the absence of binding rules and regulations.· The social workers were bound by rules of confidentiality and legal requirements which prevented them from revealing any relevant information.· However, in April, anyone taking out a new pension contract will be bound by the new rules.· A new State is bound by the rules of customary international law in existence when it acquires Statehood.· The exchange member will be bound by the rules to which he has consented.· Bourges was a community in a vital sense, bound by rules of the inhabitants' own making.· You weren't so bound by rules, legislation, case law or anything like that.
· Aforementioned principles and provisions are binding on all Member State authorities, including the courts.· The constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties.
· Thereafter they moved around the Balkans, sometimes in open war with the Romans, sometimes bound by treaty.· The goal is to write a legally binding treaty that would be signed in December by as many countries as possible.· The scope of that Article was to bind member States to treaties concluded by the organisation, not contracts under municipal law.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1tie/fasten [transitive] written a)to tie someone so that they cannot move or escape: - We're bound hand and foot by all these safety regulations.
- Then, before she realised what was happening, he fastened her in the double stirrups, binding her hands and feet.
- After months of travel, we were at last homeward bound.
- And then he's made it, horror shy, homeward bound.
- Day 16 Mombasa-London Depart Mombasa on a homeward bound flight, arriving in London early evening.
- Voice over Rob begins the homeward bound trip next week.
- Don't you tell him either, because he'd feel honour bound to do something about it.
- For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.
- In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances.
- It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.
- Within the workplace inequality and conflict are inextricably bound up, irrespective of the relationship between particular managements and workforces.
They bound my arms and legs with rope.bound and gagged (=tied up, and with cloth tied around your mouth so you cannot speak) b) (also bind up) to tie things firmly together with cloth or string: The pile of newspapers was bound with string.2form a connection [transitive] to form a strong emotional or economic connection between two people, countries etc SYN unitebind somebody/something together Their shared experiences in war helped to bind the two communities together.3make somebody do something [transitive] if you are bound by an agreement, promise etc, you must do what you have agreed to do or promised to dobe bound by something The monks are bound by vows of silence.be bound to do something Employees are not bound to give their reasons for leaving.GRAMMAR Bind is usually passive in this meaning.4stick together [intransitive, transitive] technical to stick together in a mass, or to make small pieces of something stick together: The flour mixture isn’t wet enough to bind properly.bind with The hydrogen molecule binds with the oxygen molecule.5book [transitive] to fasten the pages of a book together and put them in a cover → bound2(9)6stitch [transitive] to sew cloth over the edge of a piece of material, or stitch over it, to strengthen it: The edges of the blanket were bound with ribbon.bind somebody over phrasal verb [usually passive] law a)British English if someone is bound over by a court of law, they are warned that, if they cause more trouble, they will be legally punished: The demonstrators were bound over to keep the peace. b)American English if someone is bound over for trial, they are forced by law to appear in a courtbind1 verbbind2 noun
bindbind2 noun [singular] informal EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- But the pragmatists are in a bind.
- Caroline was really in a bind.
- FastLynx takes the bind out of file transfer.
- This is not necessarily liberating: it may just be a double bind.
- Thus is the reporter put in a classic double bind.
- To his credit, he did feel terrible about the bind I was in and he did as much as he could.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Both sides in the dispute have agreed to binding arbitration. He left his victim bound and gagged (=tied up and with something over their mouth that stops them speaking). This was bound to happen sooner or later. a legally binding agreement
(=have to obey the conditions of an official agreement)· India is bound by the agreements signed under the World Trade Organisation.
(=an official agreement that must be obeyed)· Lawyers are in the process of drafting a legally binding agreement between both parties.
Both sides in the dispute have agreed to binding arbitration. formal (=have a duty to do something)· Soldiers are here to do a job and are duty-bound to complete it.
(=it is going there)· Johnson boarded a flight bound for Caracas.
He left his victim bound and gagged (=tied up and with something over their mouth that stops them speaking). This was bound to happen sooner or later. (=feel that you should do something, because it is morally right or your duty to do it)· My father felt honour bound to help his sister.
a legally binding agreement (=have sworn an oath)· These chiefs were bound to him by oaths of loyalty.
(=something that you must legally do, especially because of an agreement)· These clauses are legally binding obligations on both parties.
(=have to obey them)· Solicitors are bound by strict rules that regulate their professional conduct.
(=to have promised seriously to do something)· She told him she was bound by a vow not to tell any other person.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Thus is the reporter put in a classic double bind.· Hence the double bind attached to being appropriately feminine rears its ugly head again.· This is not necessarily liberating: it may just be a double bind.· Used together these two strategies comprise that peculiar language game known as a double bind.· But now division heads are in a double bind.· Exactly the same double bind is encountered in any theorization of racial difference.· Blot: That sounds as if you think we're caught in a double bind from which there's no escape.· A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an annoying or difficult situation: - We're bound hand and foot by all these safety regulations.
- Then, before she realised what was happening, he fastened her in the double stirrups, binding her hands and feet.
- After months of travel, we were at last homeward bound.
- And then he's made it, horror shy, homeward bound.
- Day 16 Mombasa-London Depart Mombasa on a homeward bound flight, arriving in London early evening.
- Voice over Rob begins the homeward bound trip next week.
- Don't you tell him either, because he'd feel honour bound to do something about it.
- For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.
- In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances.
- It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.
- Within the workplace inequality and conflict are inextricably bound up, irrespective of the relationship between particular managements and workforces.
It’s a real bind having to look after the children.in a bind Caroline was really in a bind.