Definitions for BIND
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. bindverb

   something that hinders as if with bonds

2. adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick toverb

   stick to firmly

   "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?"

3. bind, tie, attach, bondverb

   create social or emotional ties

   "The grandparents want to bond with the child"

4. bindverb

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

   "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"

5. bind, bandageverb

   wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose

6. tie down, tie up, bind, trussverb

   secure with or as if with ropes

   "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"

7. oblige, bind, hold, obligateverb

   bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted

   "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"

8. bindverb

   provide with a binding

   "bind the books in leather"

9. tie, bindverb

   fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord

   "They tied their victim to the chair"

10. bindverb

    form a chemical bond with

    "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"

11. constipate, bindverb

    cause to be constipated

    "These foods tend to constipate you"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bindnoun

   That which binds or ties.

2. bindnoun

   A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.

3. bindnoun

   Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.

4. bindnoun

   A ligature or tie for grouping notes.

5. bindverb

   To connect

6. bindverb

   To couple

7. bindverb

   To put together in a cover, as of books

8. bindverb

   to associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name with the content of a storage location

9. Etymology: From bindan, from bindanan (compare West Frisian bine, Dutch/German binden), from bhendh- 'to tie' (compare Welsh benn 'cart', Latin offendix 'knot, band', Lithuanian beñdras 'partner', Albanian bend, bind, Ancient Greek πεῖσμα, Sanskrit badhnāti 'he binds').

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bindnoun

   A species of hops.

   The two best sorts are the white and the grey bind; the latter is a large square hop, and more hardy. John Mortimer.

2. To BINDverb

   pret. I bound; particip. pass. bound, or bounden.

   Etymology: bindan , Saxon.

   1. To confine with bonds; to enchain.

   Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? Job, xli. 5.

   2. To gird; to enwrap; to involve.

   Who hath bound the waters in a garment. Prov. xxx. 4.

   3. To fasten to any thing.

   Thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window, which thou didst let us down by. Joshua, ii. 18.

   Keep my commandments, and live: and my law, as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Prov. vii. 3, 4.

   4. To fasten together.

   Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles, to burn them. Matt. xiii. 20.

   5. To cover a wound with dressings and bandages.

   When he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds. Luke, x. 34.

   Having filled up the bared cranium with our dressings, we bound up the wound. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

   6. To compel; to constrain.

   Those canons, or imperial constitutions, which have not been received here, do not bind. Matthew Hale, Common Law of Engl.

   7. To oblige by stipulation, or oath.

   If a man vow a vow, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. Numbers, xxx. 2.

   Swear by the solemn oath, that binds the gods. Alexander Pope.

   8. To oblige by duty or law.

   Though I am bound to every act of duty,
   I am not bound to that, all slaves are free to. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   Duties expressly required in the plain language of Scripture, ought to bind our consciences more than those which are but dubiously inferred. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.

   9. To oblige by kindness.10. To confine; to hinder.

   Now I’m cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d, bound in
   To saucy doubts and fears. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   You will sooner, by imagination, bind a bird from singing, than from eating or flying. Francis Bacon, Natural Hist. №. 989.

   Though passion be the most obvious and general, yet it is not the only cause that binds up the understanding, and confines it, for the time, to one object, from which it will not be taken off. John Locke.

   In such a dismal place,
   Where joy ne’er enters, which the sun ne’er cheers,
   Bound in with darkness, overspread with damps. Dryden.

   11. To hinder the flux of the bowels; to make costive.

   Rhubarb hath manifestly in it parts of contrary operations; parts that purge, and parts that bind the body. Francis Bacon.

   The whey of milk doth loose, the milk doth bind. George Herbert.

   12. To restrain.

   The more we are bound up to an exact narration, we want more life, and fire, to animate and inform the story. Henry Felton.

   13. To bind a book. To put it in a cover.

   Was ever book, containing such vile matter,
   So fairly bound? William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

   Those who could never read the grammar,
   When my dear volumes touch the hammer,
   May think books best, as richest bound. Matthew Prior.

   14. To bind to. To oblige to serve some one.

   If still thou do’st retain
   The same ill habits, the same follies too,
   Still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave. John Dryden, Pers.

   15. To bind to. To contract with any body.

   Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. 1 Cor. vii.

   16. To bind over. To oblige to make appearance.

   Sir Roger was staggered with the reports concerning this woman, and would have bound her over to the country sessions. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 117.

3. To Bindverb

   1. To contract the parts together; to grow stiff and hard.

   If the land rise full of clots, and if it is a binding land, you must make it fine by harrowing of it. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   2. To make costive.3. To be obligatory.

   The promises and bargains for truck, between a Swiss and an Indian, in the woods of America, are binding to them, though they are perfectly in a state of nature, in reference to one another. John Locke.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BIND

   BIND () is a suite of software for interacting with the Domain Name System (DNS). Its most prominent component, named (pronounced name-dee: , short for name daemon), performs both of the main DNS server roles, acting as an authoritative name server for DNS zones and as a recursive resolver in the network. As of 2015, it is the most widely used domain name server software, and is the de facto standard on Unix-like operating systems. Also contained in the suite are various administration tools such as nsupdate and dig, and a DNS resolver interface library. The software was originally designed at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in the early 1980s. The name originates as an acronym of Berkeley Internet Name Domain, reflecting the application's use within UCB. The latest version is BIND 9, first released in 2000 and still actively maintained by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) with new releases issued several times a year.

ChatGPTRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. bind

   Bind refers to the action of tying, fastening, or securing something firmly or tightly together. This can be in a physical sense, such as tying a knot, or in a more metaphorical sense such as legally or morally obligating someone to do something. In computing, it also refers to the process of associating an identifier with a value.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bindverb

   to tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner

2. Bindverb

   to confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams

3. Bindverb

   to cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound

4. Bindverb

   to make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part

5. Bindverb

   to prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels

6. Bindverb

   to protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment

7. Bindverb

   to sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book

8. Bindverb

   fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other

9. Bindverb

   to bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant

10. Bindverb

    to place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service

11. Bindverb

    to tie; to confine by any ligature

12. Bindverb

    to contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat

13. Bindverb

    to be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction

14. Bindverb

    to exert a binding or restraining influence

15. Bindnoun

    that which binds or ties

16. Bindnoun

    any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine

17. Bindnoun

    indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron

18. Bindnoun

    a ligature or tie for grouping notes

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BIND

   BIND, or named, is the most widely used DNS software on the Internet. On Unix-like operating systems it is the de facto standard. Originally written by four graduate students at the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, the name originates as an acronym from Berkeley Internet Name Domain, reflecting the application's use within UCB. BIND was first released with Berkeley Software Distribution 4.3BSD, and as such, it is free and open source software. Paul Vixie started maintaining it in 1988 while working for Digital Equipment Corporation. As of 2012, the Internet Systems Consortium maintains, updates, and writes new versions of BIND.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bind

   bīnd, v.t. to tie or fasten together with a band (with to, upon): to encircle round (with about, with): to sew a border on: to tie up or bandage a limb, or the like: to fasten together (the leaves of a book) and put a cover on: to lay under obligation to answer a charge: to oblige by oath or promise to or from an action: to restrain, to make fast any one—also of disease, a magic spell, a passion, &c.: to hold or cement firmly: to render hard.—v.i. to produce constipation:—pa.t. and pa.p. bound.—n. a stalk of hops, so called from its twining or binding itself round a pole or tree: the indurated clay of coal-mines: (mus.) the tie for grouping notes together.—ns. Bind′er, one who binds, as books or sheaves: an attachment to a reaping-machine for tying the bundles of grain cut and thrown off, a reaping-machine provided with such; Bind′ery (U.S.), a bookbinder's establishment.—adj. Bind′ing, restraining: obligatory.—n. the act of binding: anything that binds: the covering of a book.—ns. Bind′weed, the convolvulus, a genus of plants, so called from their twining or binding; Bine, the slender stem of a climbing plant.—I dare or will be bound, I will be responsible for the statement. [A.S. bindan; cog. with Ger. binden, Sans. bandh.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bind

   A quantity of eels, containing 10 sticks of 25 each.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bind

   To create a connection or form of unity.

   They did bind both documents together.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 19, 2020  

2. ---

   bind

   To have a form of official unity governmental authority.

   The treaty is created to bind the countries together in peaceful and unifying collective action and agreement.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 19, 2020  

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1. BIND

   What does BIND stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the BIND acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Attach
   • Bond
   • Chemistry
   • Cover
   • Fasten
   • Indispose
   • Relate

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'BIND' in Verbs Frequency: #417

Anagrams for BIND »

1. INBD

How to pronounce BIND?

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of BIND in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of BIND in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of BIND in a Sentence

1. Michel Goedert:

   Our new knowledge of these structures could make it possible to diagnose CTE in living patients by developing tracer compounds that will specifically bind to the tau filaments of CTE.

2. Abigail Adams:

   A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

3. Margot Mifflin:

   It’s in kind of a bind because as it tries to progress, it not only loses its original identity, but becomes less entertaining to the people who like to watch it.

4. Jeff Wright:

   We've just found a way to make that a much faster process. Driving healthy calcium and phosphate minerals into your enamel, and through a natural process it will bind on and add to the enamel that's there.

5. Ivo Daalder:

   Frankly, [Australia] wanted to bind the U.S. into the Pacific as well and this is another way to do that, the strategic rationale for going with the UK-U.S. was much more significant than going with the French.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=BIND
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bind
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=BIND
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bind
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/BIND
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=BIND
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=BIND
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=BIND