/ˈbaɪ̯n/ when followed by "the, this, their" and similar words
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *bindaną
Proto-West Germanic *bindan
Old English bindan
Middle English binden
English bind
From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéndʰ-e-ti, from *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
See also West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, binden, German binden, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk binde, Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish binda; also Welsh ben (“cart”), Latin offendīx (“knot, band”), Lithuanian beñdras (“partner”), Albanian bind (“to convince, to awe, to spell”), Ancient Greek πεῖσμα (peîsma, “cable, rope”), Persian بستن (bastan, “to bind”), Sanskrit बन्धति (bándhati). Doublet of bandana.
Meanings
(countable) That which binds or ties.
(countable) A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
(countable, uncountable) Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
(countable) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
(countable) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
the Maróczy Bind
(countable, uncountable) The indurated clay of coal mines, or other overlying substances such as sandstone or shale.
bg свръзка (that which binds) · bg затруднение (troublesome situation) · de Fessel (that which binds) · bg връзка (that which binds) · de Zwickmühle (troublesome situation) · bg звено (that which binds)
/ˈbaɪ̯n/ when followed by "the, this, their" and similar words
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *bindaną
Proto-West Germanic *bindan
Old English bindan
Middle English binden
English bind
From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéndʰ-e-ti, from *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
See also West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, binden, German binden, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk binde, Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish binda; also Welsh ben (“cart”), Latin offendīx (“knot, band”), Lithuanian beñdras (“partner”), Albanian bind (“to convince, to awe, to spell”), Ancient Greek πεῖσμα (peîsma, “cable, rope”), Persian بستن (bastan, “to bind”), Sanskrit बन्धति (bándhati). Doublet of bandana.
Meanings
(intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
They that reap must sheaf and bind. c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
(intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
unlocks their [clay’s] binding Quality. 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
We’ll throw it in just to make the cheese more binding.
(intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while.
(intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
These are the ties that bind.
(transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
To bind a prisoner.
To bind grain in bundles.
(transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
Frost binds the earth.
Gravity binds the planets to the sun.
He bindeth the flouds from ouerflowing, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he foorth to light. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 28:11:
And ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, loe these eighteene yeeres, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day? 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 13:16:
(transitive) To couple.
(figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
He'll mind, I reckon, not getting any work out'n me, but I won't be bounden to him any longer. How can he keep me if I ain't bounden to him? 1963, William A. Owens, chapter 2, in Look to the River, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum; republished as Look to the River (Texas Tradition Series; 8), Fort Worth, Tex.: Texas Christian University Press, 1988, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:
I am much bounden to your Maieſty. c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 11, column 2:
In the concluding whereof Sir Thomas More so worthily handled himself, procuring in our league far more benefits unto this realm, than at that time, by the king or his council was thought possible to be compassed, that for his good service in that voyage, the king, when he after made him Lord Chancellor, caused the Duke of Norfolk openly to declare to the people, as you shall hear hereafter more at large, how much all England was bounden unto him. 1626, William Roper, S. W. Singer, The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatnes. Or The Life of Syr Thomas More Knight, sometime Lo. Chancellour of England, new revised and corrected edition, Paris [i.e. Saint-Omer]: [Printed at the English College Press], →OCLC; republished as The Life of Sir Thomas More, by His Son-in-law, William Roper, Esq. […], Chiswick, London: From the press of C[harles] Whittingham, for R. Triphook, […], 1822, →OCLC, page 36:
Who made our Laws to bind us, not himſelf, 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 25, line 310:
to bind the conscience.
To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
To place under legal obligation to serve.
To bind an apprenticeship.
To bound out to service.
(transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
(archaic, transitive) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
To bind a compress upon a wound.
To bind a belt about one.
(transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
To bind up a wound.
(archaic, transitive) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.
Certain drugs bind the bowels.
(transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
The three novels were bound together.
(transitive) To make two or more elements stick together.
(transitive) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
We bind the variable n to the value 2, and xs to "abcd". 2008, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell, page 33:
You can bind an identifier to an object of a derived type, as you did earlier when you bound a string to an identifier of type obj[…] 2009, Robert Pickering, Beginning F#, page 123:
(transitive) To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
(UK, dialectal) To complain; to whine about something.
"But it's not much good piling up the pix if I can't sell them."
"Oh do stop binding. Think of something. How will we eat, where will we sleep?" 1980, Iris Murdoch, Nuns And Soldiers:
(intransitive) To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
I haven't binded since I got my top surgery.
I hear binder tech has improved since I last bound.
fr lier (transitive couple) · ru вяза́ть (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · oc religar (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · ota باغلامق (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · it legare (transitive connect) · ja 縛る (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · sv koppla (transitive couple) · ru связа́ть (transitive couple) · da forbinde (transitive connect) · frr ferbine (transitive connect) · cs svázat (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · la vinciō (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · gd naisg (transitive connect) · bg връзвам (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · it connettere (transitive connect) · vec łigar (transitive connect) · de fesseln (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ru свя́зывать (transitive connect) · fur leâ (transitive connect) · it legare (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · nl koppelen (transitive connect) · sa मव्यति (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · it connettere (transitive couple) · ja 繋ぐ (transitive connect) · vi trói (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · grc δέω (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · fr connecter (transitive connect) · fi yhdistää (transitive connect) · ms ikat (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · vi ghép đôi (transitive couple) · sa द्यति (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · uk зв'я́зувати (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · pt encapar (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · de binden (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · oc cinglar (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · oc ligar (transitive connect) · hu összeköt (transitive connect) · es atar (transitive connect) · bg връзвам (transitive couple) · fr relier (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · pt amarrar (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ru свя́зать (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · la cōnectō (transitive connect) · el βιβλιοδετώ (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · osx bindan (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · it connettersi (transitive connect) · cdo 縛 /缚 (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · scn liari (transitive connect) · el δένω (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · tr birleştirmek (transitive couple) · got 𐌱𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · non binda (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ota باغلامق (transitive connect) · id sambung (transitive connect) · fa بستن (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · es engargolar (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · goh bintan (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ar أَسَرَ (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · cmn 結合 /结合 (transitive connect) · ru свя́зывать (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · stq biende (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · cs vázat (transitive connect) · vi buộc (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · ja 縛る (transitive connect) · ca lligar (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · de (z.B. ein Buch) binden (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · mi rona (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · grc δέω (transitive couple) · sv binda (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · sv förbinda (transitive connect) · no binde (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · sv binda (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · frr bin (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ca nugar (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · de konnektieren (transitive connect) · pt acoplar (transitive couple) · gd (sheaves) sguab (transitive connect) · es ligar (transitive connect) · frr bine (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · cmn 縛 /缚 (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ru вяза́ть (transitive couple) · ro lega (transitive connect) · yue 裝訂 /装订 (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · crh bint (transitive connect) · es fajarse (intransitive to wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest) · es acoplar (transitive couple) · be звя́зваць (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ca lligar (transitive connect) · kk мұқабалау (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · eo ligi (transitive connect) · gl amarrar (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · la teneo (transitive connect) · tr ciltlemek (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · eu lotu (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · id hubung (transitive connect) · eo ligi (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · gl atar (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · fr nouer (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · pl zawiązać (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · sq lidh (transitive connect) · pl oprawić (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · sq lidh (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · io bindar (transitive connect) · frr binj (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ang bindan (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · es ceñir (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · enm binden (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · pdt binjen (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · bg свързвам (transitive connect) · pt copular (transitive connect) · cmn 綁 /绑 (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · es liar (transitive connect) · es vincular (transitive connect) · es atar (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · arz وصل (transitive connect) · fr coupler (transitive couple) · pt ligar (transitive connect) · nl verbinden (transitive connect) · fi sitoa (transitive connect) · nl binden (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ja 繋げる (transitive connect) · ja 綴じる (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · fr lier (transitive connect) · mi tauwhere (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · lo ຈອງ (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · my တုပ် (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · vec ligar (transitive connect) · it annodare (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ru связа́ть (transitive connect) · gmh binden (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · sa बन्धति (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · id ikat (transitive connect) · be звяза́ць (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · es empastar (transitive connect) · ar رَبَطَ (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · fr attacher (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · uk зв'яза́ти (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · hi छांदना (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · cu вѧсти (transitive connect) · oc cordar (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · hy կապել (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · la nectō (transitive connect) · la iungō (transitive connect) · is binda (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · pl oprawiać (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · ofs binda (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · af bind (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · lt rišti (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · ro cupla (transitive connect) · fi sitoa (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · it rilegare (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · fi sitoa (transitive couple) · kmr bestın (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · gml binden (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · arz ربط (transitive connect) · yue 綁 /绑 (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · kk байланыстыру (transitive connect) · mn уях (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ko 묶다 (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · sw kufunga (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · scn lijari (transitive connect) · nl binden (transitive connect) · mi whakarorerore (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ru переплета́ть (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · vi liên kết (transitive connect) · eo bindi (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · dum binden (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · fi kytkeä (transitive couple) · cs spojit (transitive couple) · oc socar (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ro conecta (transitive connect) · oc ligar (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ga cuibhrigh (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · pt juntar (transitive connect) · la ligō (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · pl wiązać (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · frr ferbinj (transitive connect) · es ligar (transitive couple) · fo binda (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · vi trói (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · vi buộc (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ru вяза́ть (transitive connect) · my ချည် (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · vi cột (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · de verbinden (transitive couple) · scn ligari (transitive connect) · nn binda (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · grc δέω (transitive connect) · bg подвързвам (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · pt conectar (transitive connect) · vi ghép cặp (transitive couple) · fi sitoa (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · th โยง (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · vi kết hợp (transitive connect) · qu watay (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · eo bindi (transitive, programming to process object modules into a program) · ca enquadernar (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · ja 結ぶ (transitive connect) · fr lier (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · mi paihere (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · km ចង (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · de verbinden (transitive connect) · bg приързвам (transitive couple) · ota ربط ایتمك (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · cmn 裝訂 /装订 (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · ru переплести́ (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · tr bağlamak (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · vi cột (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · yue 紮 /扎 (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · be вяза́ць (transitive connect) · es encuadernar (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · pox ai̯vązĕ (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · vi nối (transitive connect) · oc bendar (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ca relligar (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · no binde (transitive connect) · gd cuibhrich (transitive connect) · cmn 捆 (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · sd ٻَڌَڻُ (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · da binde (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · qu arwiy (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · pt encadernar (transitive put together in a cover, as of books) · ru свя́зывать (transitive couple) · es vincular (transitive couple) · fy bine (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) · ar رَبَطَ (transitive connect) · tr bağlamak (transitive connect) · nds-de binnen (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.)