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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Binding \Bind"ing\, a. That binds; obligatory.
Binding beam (Arch.), the main timber in double flooring.
Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framed flooring.
Syn: Obligatory; restraining; restrictive; stringent; astringent; costive; styptic.
Binding \Bind"ing\, n.
The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.
pl. (Naut.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
Bind \Bind\, v. t. [imp. Bound; p. p. Bound, formerly Bounden; p. pr. & vb. n. Binding.] [AS. bindan, perfect tense band, bundon, p. p. bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh (for bhandh) to bind, cf. Gr. ? (for ?) cable, and L. offendix.
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.
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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.
He bindeth the floods from overflowing.
--Job xxviii. 11.Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years.
--Luke xiii. 16. To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
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.
To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
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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.
Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.
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(Law)
To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
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To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
To bind over, to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc.
To bind to, to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife.
To bind up in, to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in.
Syn: To fetter; tie; fasten; restrain; restrict; oblige.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., verbal noun from bind (v.). Meaning "thing that binds" is from c.1300; "state of being bound" is from late 14c. Meaning "covering of a book" is recorded from 1640s.
Wiktionary
1 Assigning something that one will be held to. 2 (cx chemistry English) Acting as an agent which makes two elements bind strongly together. n. 1 An item (usually rope, tape, or string) used to hold two or more things together. 2 The spine of a book where the pages are held together. 3 (context sewing English) A finishing on a seam or hem of a garment. 4 (context programming English) The association of a named item with an element of a program. 5 (cx chemistry English) The action or result of making two or more molecules stick together. v
(present participle of bind English)
WordNet
n. the capacity to attract and hold something
strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration
the front and back covering of a book; "the book had a leather binding" [syn: book binding, cover, back]
adj. executed with proper legal authority; "a binding contract"
hindering freedom of movement; "tight garments are uncomfortably binding" [syn: constricting]
causing constipation [syn: constipating]
Wikipedia
Binding may refer to persons or places with naming from a variety of origins, or to the concept of bringing or holding two or more separate things together:
In linguistics, binding is the distribution of anaphoric elements (pronouns and other pro-forms). A pronoun (a "bindee") usually has an antecedent (a "binder") in context. The goal of binding theory is to identify the syntactic relationship that can or must hold between a given pronoun or noun and its antecedent (or postcedent), e.g. John said he would help vs. *He said John would help (the second sentence is not possible if he is intended to mean John). The idea that there should be a specialized, coherent theory dealing with this sort of phenomena originated in work in Transformational Grammar in the 1970s. This work culminated in Government and Binding Theory in the 1980s. The binding theory that became established at that time is still considered a reference point, though its validity is no longer accepted. Many theories of syntax now have a subtheory that addresses binding phenomena. These phenomena exist in all languages, although the behavior of binding can vary in interesting and nuanced ways across languages, even across languages that are closely related.
Usage examples of "binding".
In 1867 the debtor for the first time was permitted, either before or after adjudication of bankruptcy, to propose terms of composition which would become binding upon acceptance by a designated majority of his creditors and confirmation by a bankruptcy court.
Also, in a suit to enforce double liability, brought in Rhode Island against a stockholder in a Kansas trust company, the courts of Rhode Island were held to be obligated to extend recognition to the statutes and court decisions of Kansas whereunder it is established that a Kansas judgment recovered by a creditor against the trust company is not only conclusive as to the liability of the corporation but also an adjudication binding each stockholder therein.
Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovereignty.
Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire, Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovranty: Thus, O, thus gloriously, Shall you fulfil yourselves!
At the edge of the woods, the tall stems of goldenrod, low masses of blue ageratum, black-eyed Susans, and lavender asters, all tangled with binding vines of pink morning glory just closing its flowers.
When Alec had pulled the lacings snug, he carefully draped a gauzy wimple over his hair, binding it with a silk cord and arranging the folds to spread gracefully over his shoulders.
They writhed and twisted and foamed, broke open in sores as the bacteria destroyed the binding structure of the amorphous tissue.
The bandaged hand was still dry, though the bindings keeping his Grace in the saddle had chafed a sore in one wrist.
I was a comparatively sane bibliomaniac, but to Allen the time came when he grudged every penny that he did not spend on rare books, and when he actually gave up his share of the water we used to take together, that his contribution to the rent might go for rare editions and bindings.
Philippe Liotard had started collecting testimonials from bibliophiles, and it had turned out that Steuvels was one of the best bookbinders in Paris, possibly the best, and that collectors entrusted their delicate work to him, especially the restoration of antique bindings.
An international bimetallic system, binding nations to each other for a definite term of years, is a proposition involving large responsibilities.
Rudy Noyes sat impassively beside Bookman, and Kyril Montana studied the wire binding holding his small notebook together.
Human Health: A Journey Within, by Faith Hickman Brynie, Library Binding, published by Millbrook Press, 1995.
The drawling voice which answered filled the lobby, ascended to the green skylight far above, moved inexorably outward from the place of utterance to the balcony edges, thrust through the banisters to flow into the aisles of books, soaking each volume in turn so that the very bindings became redolent with that sound, not echoing but vibrating nonetheless in a reverberating hum larger than the building itself, a seeking pressure which left no corner unexplored.
Beeah Chok, engineering second, to make binding legal contracts contingent on her signature.