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That which binds or ties.
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A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
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Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
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A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
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A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.
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the Maróczy Bind
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The indurated clay of coal mines.
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To tie; to confine by any ligature.
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To cohere or stick together in a mass.
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Just to make the cheese more binding
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To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
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I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while.
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To exert a binding or restraining influence.
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These are the ties that bind.
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To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
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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.
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Frost binds the earth.
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To couple.
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To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
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to bind the conscience to bind by kindness bound by affection commerce binds nations to each other
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To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
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To place under legal obligation to serve.
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to bind an apprentice bound out to service
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To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
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To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
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to bind a belt about one to bind a compress upon a wound
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To cover, as with a bandage.
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to bind up a wound
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To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.
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Certain drugs bind the bowels.
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To put together in a cover, as of books.
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The three novels were bound together.
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To make two or more elements stick together.
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To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
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To complain; to whine about something.
Why did I bind myself to her?
Finding it and turning it over was a small price to pay to get out of the bind she was in.
But federation on a larger scale was never possible in Phoenicia, for the reason that no sense of political unity existed to bind the different states together.
I heard the owner was in a bind, and that's what made me think of it.
Darkyn had gone through the process to blood bind Deidre; he wasn't going to let his only source of food go.
Those who would consult him had first to surprise and bind him during his noonday slumber in a cave by the sea, where he was wont to pass the heat of the day surrounded by his seals.
Then we'll bind you to him.
The problem of the early railway builders in the United States was to conquer the wilderness, to build an empire, and at the same time to bind the East to the West and the North to the South.
A new and elaborate treaty, the terms of which have come down to us, was now concluded between the Russians and Greeks, a treaty which evidently sought to bind the two nations closely together and obviate all possible differences which might arise between them in the future.
It has three small straps in front, and two white straps to bind it on the leg.
No securities, however, could bind John.
A fourth endeavoured to bind the peasantry more closely to the soil by forbidding emigration.
Such an attempt to bind together nations with such different aims and characters was doomed to failure.
We cannot, however, bind ourselves to this tradition.
He knew enough to find her and plot to bind her to him.
These Ties That Bind will keep you bound to your seat!
His decision was to bind all his subjects, but a subject professing another religion from his prince was to be permitted to leave the country.
It is especially the local religious festivals which bind them together.
The medullary rays extend radially from the centre of the tree to the bark at right angles to the grain of the wood, and serve during life to bind the whole together as well as to convey nourishment from one part of the tree to another.
A proclamation forbidding transactions with a state which might still be capable of maintaining its independence could obviously bind only those subject to the authority of the state issuing it.
In her Dit de la rose (1402) she describes an order of the rose, the members of which bind themselves by vow to defend the honour of women.
When an agent acts in excess of his implied authority, he is said to make no treaty, but a mere " sponsion," which, unless adopted by his government, does not bind it, e.g.
Carex arenaria, the sea-bent, grows on sand-dunes and helps to bind the sand FIG.
Again, when Hera, Athena and Poseidon threatened to bind Zeus in chains, she sent the giant Aegaeon, who delivered him out of their hands.
The endeavours of Swedish statesmen to bind the hands of their future king were due to their fear of the rising flood of the Catholic reaction in Europe.
The role of Greece, when she acceded to the league, was by offensive operations from Thessaly to bind as many hostile troops as possible, incidentally occupying the country which it was intended to acquire.
Parental tenderness and care for the young are strongly marked among the lower animals, though so inferior in scope and duration to the human qualities; and the same may be said of the mutual forbearance and defence which bind together in a rudimentary social bond the families and herds of animals.
As an inducement, the Solemn League and Covenant was signed by all Parliamentarian Englishmen, the terms of which were interpreted by the Scots to bind England to submit to Presbyterianism, though the most important clauses had been purposely left vague, so as to afford a loophole of escape.
Then you're in a bind, if you intend to claim her.
On subsequent exposure to the drug, the drug-specific IgE antibodies bind to the drug on the surfaces of certain cells of the immune system.
To finish the project you will need to bind it.
When the kings of our people found them, they mated with them to bind them to them.
If you don't plan on sticking around long, you're going to find yourself in a bind.
Paint and coloured washes were liberally used to cover plastered surfaces and for ornamentation, and paints seem to have been used to bind plastered surfaces.
James was " Christ's silly vassal," so Andrew Melville told him, and " Christ" in practice meant the preachers who possessed the power of the keys, the power to bind and loose on earth and in heaven.
The championship of Hottentot grievances by the missionaries caused much dissatisfaction among the majority of the colonists, whose views, it may be noted, temporarily prevailed, for in 1812 an ordinance was issued which empowered magistrates to bind Hottentot children as apprentices under conditions differing little from that of slavery.
She was free to hold and deal with property of her own and bind it by contract.
His patron having discovered the value of so laborious and powerful a subaltern, wished to bind Burke permanently to his service.
On some islands the men collect their hair into small bunches, and carefully bind each bunch round with fine vegetable fibre from the roots up to within about two inches from the end.
In La Reforme intellectuelle et morale (1871) he endeavoured at least to bind her wounds, to safeguard her future.
Only an Oracle's blood was drained to force her to bind with her master.
We'll bind you to Czerno, and you'll serve him for all eternity.
If he didn't bind you, you'd be bound to Czerno, and then you'd really want to kill yourself, he said.
She'd never let him blood bind her, but he wasn't someone who took no for an answer, even if it was allegedly voluntary.
No one else can turn a human into a demon, and only demons blood bind.
The affinity for the fourth oxygen to bind is approximately 300 times that for the first.
After three years in simple vows, the young nun may ask to take solemn vows which bind her for life.
None being able to hold or bind him, the servant ran, and knocking at the door, told the abbess.
In the year ending March 1998, 11% of completed cases in the Crown Court resulted in non-jury acquittal or bind over.
When the Pi leaves the myosin, the head binds the actin and the power stroke is released as the head bind actin.
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