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bind English

Meaning bind meaning

What does bind mean?
Definitions in simple English

bind Verb

— If you bind something put rope or string around it, often many times. She tied the rope around their hands, binding them tightly together. He bound the books with string and carried them downstairs. — If something binds two people or things, it connects them. Now that he couldn't walk, he was bound to his nurse. — If someone is bound by a rule, promise, etc., they must not break it. The media are not bound by the same rules that govern lawyers. When they join the European Union, they will have to agree to be bound by the European Convention on Human Rights. The president is not bound to sign any law that Congress sends up. — If two things bind, they stick together. Carbon binds with oxygen to form carbon dioxide. — If you bind a book, you put it together so the pages stay together.

bind Noun

— A bind is a difficult position or situation. I've lost my job and I'm in a terrible bind.

bind

— verb (= adhere, stick, stick to) stick to firmly Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall? — verb make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope The Chinese would bind the feet of their women — verb (= tie, bond) create social or emotional ties The grandparents want to bond with the child — verb wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose — verb (= hold) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted He's held by a contract I'll hold you by your promise — verb (= tie down, tie up) secure with or as if with ropes tie down the prisoners tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed — verb provide with a binding bind the books in leather — verb form a chemical bond with The hydrogen binds the oxygen — noun something that hinders as if with bonds — verb (= constipate) cause to be constipated These foods tend to constipate you — verb (= tie) fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord They tied their victim to the chair

Synonyms bind synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as bind?

bind English » English

tie fasten tie up join connect restrain attach link wrap bond tie together tether secure bundle lash truss tie on tie down oblige fetter bandage tighten shackle knot fix stick restrict associate adhere obligate gird chain strap moor ligate couple confine coil wind round wind weave string stick to squeeze pin pack make fast hold fast hold entwine

Topics bind topics

What do people use bind to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Tie
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Problem
Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison
Physical actions Move Pursue

Prevent from moving

Conjugation bind conjugation

How do you conjugate bind?

bind · verb

Examples bind examples

How do I use bind in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I am in a bind as my money has been stolen.
He knows how to bind books.
Do you bind books?

Movie subtitles

The other seeks an expression of impulses. that bind him to some dim animal relation with the earth.
If we try and bind him now, he'll escape.
But it will instead bind us together and, furthermore. no longer will it be the case in Germany. that physical labor will be seen as anything less. than any other work.
And I know that it cannot be any other way. as we bind ourselves together.
Bind him securely.
I'll bind him!
No other pledge shall bind one who has taken the Crusader's Oath.
Well, I shall bind you over to keep the peace for six months.
Let us now strive to bind up the nation's wounds.
I shall bind myself around with iron.
He wants to bind all men together in common action and common slavery.
If you move again, we'll bind you, got it?
Bind her wrist.
You've got to gag me, bind me, tear my clothes, roll me in the dust.
That's to bind the bargain.
That will bind us together. Now there'll be a solid bond between us.
Only death can break the ties that bind me to him.
It's the brakes, they bind.
Either bind yourself or let me help you!
Bind her, chain her surround her with guards picked from your most trusted men.
The chains that bind you are golden ones. But I would not try to leave. Now, look.
Since you were foolish enough to commit yourself, I must help you out of this unfortunate bind.
Bind them together, Wamba.
Lessons became a bind.
Now I'm really in a bind.
I think it would be a crime to bind him to a heavy cart.
All desire is illusion, and a tie to bind thee upon the wheel of life.
Take them to the dungeons and bind them.
Pariahs, rather. Outcasts. It is not ideals which bind us together, but failure.
I'm in a bind, sir.
Bind up my wounds!
If you're in a bind, don't bug me with it.
You can bind it.

News and current affairs

George W. Bush's disastrous war in Iraq has put Europe in a bind.
Improved technologies can offer a way out of this bind, but only if we think and act ahead.
Corporate contracts place the profit-oriented legal person at the center of the transaction and bind all of its stakeholders.
Non-governmental and non-profit civil contracts bind people together for communal, religious, social, and political activities.
Europe's leaders have tried to fill this institutional lacuna with complex, non-credible rules that often fail to bind, and that, despite this failure, end up suffocating member states in need.
The ties that bind us together were frayed by forty years of Soviet domination, but this did not fundamentally change these states' European character.
Let's face it: Greece's bind today is hardly all of its own making.
Now China's communist rulers find themselves trapped in a bind.
Europe's new constitution will be accepted as a guarantee of freedom and lawful government only if it results from a broad public dialogue reflecting the common cultural and moral assumptions that bind Europeans together.
If we do, why should provisions that make the constitution so difficult to amend bind a majority of the electorate?
But most outsiders fail to grasp the maze of living threads that bind Nigerians to one another.
So the armed forces found themselves in a double bind: the Cold War's end prompted calls for a peace dividend and for unification to be funded.
In short, the SNP's dream of social democracy in one country would fall afoul of the larger interdependencies that bind together the components of the UK, and that tie the UK to the EU and the EU to the rest of the globalized world.
These bind us together.
The United States is now caught in such a bind.
To a large extent, Helmut Kohl held up the same picture, which he used to persuade his European counterparts that they should rush to bind Germany to a more integrated Europe.
Membership of the World Trade Organization has helped to bind China to highly sophisticated pan-Asian production networks.
The alternative is a China that becomes part of a cooperative effort to bind Asia in a rules-based system similar to that which has underpinned long-term peace in Europe.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is now in a bind.
We declare, as if there can be no doubt, that friction impedes the motion between two bodies, and we invoke sophisticated microscopic models that show how the soles of running shoes bind to a track.
Apparently, authoritarian values and nationalist worldviews (together with a strong dose of anti-Americanism) create ties that bind.
This has put Gilani's two-year-old government in a real bind.
This would be the best way to bind Iran to acceptable rules of behavior.

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