bind

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishbinden,fromOld Englishbindan,fromProto-West Germanic*bindan,fromProto-Germanic*bindaną(compareWest Frisianbine,Dutchbinden,Low Germanbinnen,Germanbinden,Danishbinde), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰéndʰ-e-ti,from*bʰendʰ-(“to tie”).

CompareWelshben(“cart”),Latinoffendīx(“knot, band”),Lithuanianbeñdras(“partner”),Albanianbind(“to convince, to awe, to spell”),Ancient Greekπεῖσμα(peîsma,“cable, rope”),Persianبستن(bastan,“to bind”),Sanskritबन्धति(bándhati).Doubletofbandana.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/baɪnd/
  • Audio(US):(file)
  • Rhymes:-aɪnd

Verb

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bind(third-person singular simple presentbinds,present participlebinding,simple pastboundor(nonstandard)binded,past participleboundor(nonstandard)bindedor(archaic, rare)boundenor(obsolete)yboundor(obsolete)ybounden)

  1. (intransitive)To tie; to confine by anyligature.
  2. (intransitive)To cohere or stick together in a mass.
    We’ll throw it in just tomake the cheese morebinding.
    • 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:
      unlocks their [clay’s]bindingQuality.
  3. (intransitive)To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
    I wish I knew why the sewing machinebindsup after I use it for a while.
  4. (intransitive)To exert a binding or restraining influence.
    These are the ties thatbind.
  5. (transitive)Totieorfastentightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
    Synonyms:fetter,make fast,tie,fasten,restrain
    tobindgrain in bundles  tobinda prisoner
  6. (transitive)To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
    Synonyms:curtail,restrain;see alsoThesaurus:curb
    Gravitybindsthe planets to the sun.
    Frostbindsthe earth.
  7. (transitive)Tocouple.
  8. (figuratively)To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
    Synonyms:restrain,restrict,obligate
    tobindthe conscience  tobindby kindness boundby affection  commercebindsnations to each other
    • c.1596(date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iii],page11,column 2:
      I am muchboundento your Maieſty.
    • 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 asThe Life of Sir Thomas More, by His Son-in-law, William Roper, Esq.[…],Chiswick, London: From the press ofC[harles]Whittingham,for R. Triphook,[…],1822,→OCLC,page36:
      In the concluding whereof SirThomas Moreso 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 wasboundenunto him.
    • 1671,John Milton,“Samson Agonistes,[…].”,inParadise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes,London:[…]J[ohn]M[acock]for John Starkey[…],→OCLC,page25,line310:
      Who made our Laws tobindus, not himſelf,
    • 1963,William A. Owens,chapter 2, inLook to the River,New York, N.Y.:Atheneum;republished asLook to the River(Texas Tradition Series; 8), Fort Worth, Tex.:Texas Christian University Press,1988,→ISBN,→OCLC,page20:
      He'll mind, I reckon, not getting any work out'n me, but I won't beboundento him any longer. How can he keep me if I ain'tboundento him?
  9. (law)To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
  10. (law)To place under legal obligation to serve.
    Synonym:indenture
    tobindan apprentice boundout to service
  11. (transitive)To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
  12. (transitive,archaic)To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
    tobinda belt about one  tobinda compress upon a wound
  13. (transitive)To cover, as with a bandage.
    Synonyms:bandage,dress
    tobindup a wound
  14. (transitive,archaic)To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producingconstipation.
    Certain drugsbindthe bowels.
  15. (transitive)To put together in a cover, as of books.
    The three novels wereboundtogether.
  16. (transitive,chemistry)To make two or more elements stick together.
  17. (transitive,programming)To associate anidentifierwith a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
    • 2008,Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart,Real World Haskell,page33:
      Webindthe variablento the value2,andxsto"abcd".
    • 2009,Robert Pickering,Beginning F#,page123:
      You canbindan identifier to an object of a derived type, as you did earlier when you bound a string to an identifier of typeobj[…]
  18. (transitive,programming)To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
  19. (UK,dialect)Tocomplain;towhineabout something.
    • 1980,Iris Murdoch,Nuns And Soldiers:
      "But it's not much good piling up the pix if I can't sell them."
      "Oh do stopbinding.Think of something. How will we eat, where will we sleep? "
  20. (intransitive,LGBTQ)Towearabinderso as toflattenone'schestto give theappearanceof aflatchest, usually done bytrans men.
    I haven'tbindedsince I got my top surgery.
    I hear binder tech has improved since I lastbound.

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Noun

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bind(pluralbinds)

  1. That whichbindsorties.
  2. Atroublesomesituation; aproblem;apredicamentorquandary.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:difficult situation
  3. Anytwiningorclimbingplantorstem,especially ahopvine; abine.
  4. (music)Aligatureortiefor groupingnotes.
  5. (chess)Astronggriporstrangleholdon a position, which isdifficultfor theopponentto break.
    the MaróczyBind
  6. Theinduratedclayofcoal mines.

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Anagrams

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Albanian

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Etymology

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FromProto-Albanian*bind-,fromProto-Indo-European*bʰeydʰ-(“to persuade, encourage; constrain”).Cognate toAncient Greekπείθω(peíthō,“to persuade, convince”),[1]Illyrian*Bindus(“Illyrian Neptune”)andThracianBithus(“theonym”).Doublet withbe

Verb

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bind(aoristbinda,participlebindur)

  1. toconvince,persuade,amaze
  2. (archaic or chiefly dialectal) to performmagic,cast aspell,wonder,dazzle

Conjugation

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Standard Albanian conjugation ofbind(active voice)

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participle bindur
gerund duke bindur
infinitive për të bindur
singular plural
1st pers. 2nd pers. 3rd pers. 1st pers. 2nd pers. 3rd pers.
indicative present bind bind bind bindim bindni bindin
imperfect bindja bindje bindte bindnim bindnit bindnin
aorist binda binde bindi bindëm bindët bindën
perfect kam bindur ke bindur ka bindur kemi bindur keni bindur kanë bindur
past perfect kisha bindur kishe bindur kishte bindur kishim bindur kishit bindur kishin bindur
aorist II pata bindur pate bindur pati bindur patëm bindur patët bindur patën bindur
future1 do tëbind do tëbindësh do tëbindë do tëbindim do tëbindni do tëbindin
future perfect2 do të kem bindur do të kesh bindur do të ketë bindur do të kemi bindur do të keni bindur do të kenë bindur
subjunctive present tëbind tëbindësh tëbindë tëbindim tëbindni tëbindin
imperfect tëbindja tëbindje tëbindte tëbindnim tëbindnit tëbindnin
perfect të kem bindur të kesh bindur të ketë bindur të kemi bindur të keni bindur të kenë bindur
past perfect të kisha bindur të kishe bindur të kishte bindur të kishim bindur të kishit bindur të kishin bindur
conditional1, 2 imperfect do tëbindja do tëbindje do tëbindte do tëbindnim do tëbindnit do tëbindnin
past perfect do të kisha bindur do të kishe bindur do të kishte bindur do të kishim bindur do të kishit bindur do të kishin bindur
optative present bindsha bindsh bindtë bindshim bindshit bindshin
perfect paça bindur paç bindur pastë bindur paçim bindur paçit bindur paçin bindur
admirative present bindkam bindke bindka bindkemi bindkeni bindkan
imperfect bindkësha bindkëshe bindkësh bindkëshim bindkëshit bindkëshin
perfect paskam bindur paske bindur paska bindur paskemi bindur paskeni bindur paskan bindur
past perfect paskësha bindur paskëshe bindur paskësh bindur paskëshim bindur paskëshit bindur paskëshin bindur
imperative present — bind — — bindni —
1) indicative future identical with conditional present2) indicative future perfect identical with conditional perfect
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References

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  1. ^Demiraj,B.(1997)Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz(Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[1](in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page101

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bind

  1. inflection ofbinden:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

Faroese

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Etymology

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From the verbbinda.

Noun

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bindn(genitive singularbinds,pluralbind)

  1. a bookbinding
  2. a bookjacketorcover
  3. a bookband
  4. avolume(single book of a publication)
  5. abandage
  6. armlet,brassard
  7. asanitary napkin(US) orsanitary towel(UK)
  8. truss

Declension

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Declension ofbind
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bind bindið bind bindini
accusative bind bindið bind bindini
dative bindi bindinum bindum bindunum
genitive binds bindsins binda bindanna

German

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Verb

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bind

  1. singularimperativeofbinden
  2. (colloquial)first-personsingularpresentofbinden

Nawdm

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Noun

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bindd(pluralbinaɦa)

  1. year
  2. age

References

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  • Bakabima, Koulon Stéphane, Nicole, Jacques (2018)Nawdm-French Dictionary‎[2],SIL International

Norwegian Bokmål

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From the verbbinde.

Noun

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bindn(definite singularbindet,indefinite pluralbind,definite pluralbindaorbindene)

  1. avolume(single book of a published work)
  2. asling(kind of hanging bandage)
    Han går med armen ibind
  3. asanitary napkin(US) orsanitary towel(UK)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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bind

  1. imperativeofbinde

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From the verbbinde.

Noun

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bindn(definite singularbindet,indefinite pluralbind,definite pluralbinda)

  1. asanitary napkin(US) orsanitary towel(UK)
  2. avolume
    1. aboundbook
    2. a single book in a multi-book format
    3. bindingof a book
      Synonym:omslag
  3. asling(kind of hanging bandage)

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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FromProto-Celtic*bandis.

Adjective

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bind(equative*bindithir,comparativebindiu,superlative*bindem)

  1. melodious,harmonious
  2. pleasant,pleasing

Inflection

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i-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative bind bind bind
Vocative bind
Accusative bind bind
Genitive bind binde bind
Dative bind bind bind
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative bindi bindi
Vocative bindi
Accusative bindi
Genitive bind*
binde
Dative bindib
Notes *not when substantivized

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish:binn

Further reading

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Romanian

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromOttoman Turkishبند(bend),fromPersianبند(band).

Noun

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bindn(pluralbinduri)

  1. (obsolete)flag

Declension

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Declension ofbind
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un)bind bindul (niște)binduri bindurile
genitive/dative (unui)bind bindului (unor)binduri bindurilor
vocative bindule bindurilor

References

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  • bindin Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a,Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN

Swedish

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Verb

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bind

  1. imperativeofbinda

Wolof

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bind

  1. towrite
    Jàngalekat jaa ngiy bind.- The teacher (here) is writing.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofbind
Present Imperfect Pluperfect Future
1st s. damaybind damadoonbind bindoonnaa dinaabind
2nd s. dangaybind dangadoonbind bindoonnga dingabind
3rd s. dafaybind dafadoonbind bindoonna dinabind
1st p. dañuybind dañudoonbind bindoonnañu dinañubind
2nd p. dangeenbind dangeendoonbind bindoonngeen dingeenbind
3rd p. deñuybind deñudoonbind bindoonnañu dinañubind
Imperative
singular bindal!
plural bindleen!
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