Binding Synonyms & Definitions

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• BindingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
2. (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
3. (a.) That binds; obligatory.
4. (n.) 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.
5. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bind

• BindDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
2. (v. t.) To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
3. (v. t.) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
4. (v. t.) 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.
5. (v. i.) To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
6. (n.) Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.
7. (v. t.) To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
8. (v. t.) To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
9. (n.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
10. (v. t.) 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.
11. (v. i.) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
12. (n.) That which binds or ties.
13. (n.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
14. (v. i.) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
15. (v. t.) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
16. (v. t.) 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.
17. (v. t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
18. (v. t.) 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.

• BindinglyDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (adv.) So as to bind.

• BindingnessDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality.