n
(obsolete) The act of tying together or attaching by some bond.
v
To bind by moral or legal obligation.
n
(computing, dated) A word wrap feature that restores a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To tie round; bind fast.
n
Another term for bias tape.
v
(intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
v
(transitive) Tie up (someone's) hands and feet.
adj
(online gaming) Describing a piece of equipment (armor, weapons, accessories) that becomes bound to a player character when equipped by them. The player may sell/trade/give it to another character so long as they have not used it. After use, the player may only sell it to an in-game vendor or discard it, destroying the item. Used mainly on quest rewards and moderate to rare drops. Compare to bind on pickup.
adj
(online gaming) Describing an item that becomes bound to the player that loots it. The player cannot transfer it to another player; they may only sell it to an in-game vendor or discard it, destroying the item. Used mainly on quest MacGuffins and rare drops. Compare to bind on equip.
v
(law) To compel someone to do, or abstain from, a particular act.
n
(grammar) A language element that is grammatically bound.
n
synonym of binder (chemical or other substance): A material or substance that holds other materials together mechanically, chemically, or as an adhesive, to form a cohesive whole.
adj
(of books) Packaged together in a box set.
v
(transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
v
(intransitive, archaic, specifically) To be obliged; to be under a duty or obligation (to do something).
n
(rare, nonstandard) One who is bound.
n
Obsolete spelling of bound [(often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.]
v
(figuratively) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
v
(transitive) To put in chains
v
(transitive) To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
n
The simultaneous binding of two materials to a third.
adj
bound along with another
v
(figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
v
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
v
(by extension) To bind together; to unite.
v
(surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
v
(transitive, archaic) To bring into bondage; to enslave.
v
(transitive, rare) To bound or enclose.
v
(transitive) To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace
n
(figuratively) Anything that binds two things or people together.
v
(transitive, linguistics, Optimality Theory) Of an input-output pair, to incur a proper subset of constraint violations of a different input-output pair.
v
(intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
v
(transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
v
(transitive) To bind or hem in; enclose.
v
(obsolete) To bind up, as in a knot; to include.
v
To connect with rope or twine, especially items that are not usually assembled together.
n
(figuratively) That which binds or acts as a ligament.
v
(transitive) To bind with a ligature or bandage.
n
The state of having a ligature, of being tied.
n
The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.
adj
(mobile telephony, of a phone) Bound to a carrier.
v
To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
n
One who or that which rebinds.
n
That which is rolled up; a summation; an aggregation; a total.
v
To join with rubber bands.
v
(intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
v
(transitive) To sew up or join by means of a suture.
v
To cordon; to separate from the surroundings using tape or similar material.
v
(computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.
v
to connect something to something else.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive) To marry, wed, get married.
v
(rare) To bind underneath.
v
(transitive, obsolete, poetic) To bind up.
v
(transitive) To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.
v
(dialectal) To unite closely; fasten; rivet.
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