bind n : something that hinders as if with bonds

1 stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?" [syn: adhere, hold fast, bond, stick, stick to]

2 create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" [syn: tie, attach, bond]

3 make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope; "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women" [ant: unbind]

4 wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose [syn: bandage]

5 secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapes and bring them to the recycling shed" [syn: tie down, tie up, truss]

6 bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise" [syn: oblige, hold, obligate]

7 form a chemical bond with; "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"

8 provide with a binding; "bind the books in leather"

9 fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord; "They tied their victim to the chair" [syn: tie] [ant: untie]

10 cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you" [syn: constipate] [also: bound]

English

Etymology

From bindan.

Pronunciation

• /bʌɪnd/
• Rhymes: -aɪnd

Noun

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

Verb

1. To connect
2. To couple
3. To put together in a cover, as of books
4. to associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name with the content of a storage location

Translations

• Crimean Tatar: bint
• Czech: vázat (by a promise)
• Dutch: binden, verbinden, koppelen
• Finnish: sitoa, yhdistää
• French: relier (livre)
• German: verbinden (1,2), konnektieren (1)
• Ido: bindar
• Indonesian: ikat, sambung, hubung
• Italian: to connect: legare, to couple: connettere, to produce a book: rilegare
• Japanese: 繋ぐ (つなぐ, tsunagu), 繋げる (つなげる, tsunageru)
• Portuguese: conectar
• Spanish: atar (tie), empastar (books)
• Romanian: cuplare , conectare , legare

Derived terms

• bindweed

References

Things known as BIND or Bind include:

• BIND - the Berkeley Internet Name Domain, a DNS server
• Bind (wicca) - The Wiccan practice of stopping one's ability to do something through magical means.
• Bookbinding
• Bondage
• Foot binding
• When using monads in functional programming, bind is an operation of monads. A simple example (enabled by the fact that sets can be regarded as monads as well): Let A be a set, f: A \to 2^B, A_0 \subseteq A, then A_0 >\!\!\!>\!\!\!= f = \bigcup \left\, thus, f is applied pointwise and the union of the intermediate results is returned.

See also

• Binding
• Binder
• Binder (disambiguation)

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