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单词 bind
释义

bind

English

Etymology

From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną (compare West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, German binden, Danish binde), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéndʰ-e-ti, from *bʰendʰ- (to tie).

Compare Welsh benn (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.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

bind (third-person singular simple present binds, present participle binding, simple past bound or (nonstandard) binded, past participle bound or (nonstandard) binded or (archaic, rare) bounden)

  1. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
    • 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 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
      They that reap must sheaf and bind.
  2. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
    Just to make the cheese more binding
    • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. [], 2nd edition, London: [] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock [], and J[onathan] Robinson [], published 1708, OCLC 13320837:
      unlocks their [clay's] binding Quality.
  3. (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.
  4. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
    These are the ties that bind.
  5. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
    to bind grain in bundles  to bind a prisoner
    Synonyms: fetter, make fast, tie, fasten, restrain
  6. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
    Gravity binds the planets to the sun.
    Frost binds the earth.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], OCLC 964384981, Job 28:11:
      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 964384981, Luke 13:16:
      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?
  7. (transitive) To couple.
  8. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
    to bind the conscience  to bind by kindness  bound by affection  commerce binds nations to each other
    • c. 1596, 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 606515358, [Act III, scene iii], page 11, column 2:
      I am much bounden to 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 837637215; 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 54291031, page 36:
      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.
    • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, []”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: [] J. M[acock] for John Starkey [], OCLC 228732398, line 310, page 25:
      Who made our Laws to bind us, not himſelf,
    • 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 933573, page 20:
      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?
    Synonyms: restrain, restrict, obligate
  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.
    to bind an apprentice  bound out to service
    Synonym: indenture
  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.
    to bind a belt about one  to bind a compress upon a wound
  13. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
    to bind up a wound
    Synonyms: bandage, dress
  14. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.
    Certain drugs bind the bowels.
  15. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
    The three novels were bound together.
  16. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
  17. (transitive, programming) To associate an identifier with 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 (page 33)
      We bind the variable n to the value 2, and xs to "abcd".
    • 2009, Robert Pickering, Beginning F#, page 123:
      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 []
  18. (transitive, programming) To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
  19. (UK, dialect) To complain; to whine about 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 stop binding. Think of something. How will we eat, where will we sleep?"
  20. (intransitive, LGBT) 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.

Derived terms

  • binder
  • bind hand and foot
  • binding knot
  • binding spell
  • bind on equip
  • bind on pickup
  • bind over
  • bind to
  • bind up
  • bind up in
  • GTP-binding protein
  • hidebound
  • inbind
  • overbind
  • unbind
  • underbind

Translations

Noun

bind (plural binds)

  1. That which binds or ties.
  2. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation
  3. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
  4. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
  5. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
    the Maróczy Bind
  6. The indurated clay of coal mines.

Derived terms

  • bellbind
  • bind rune
  • bindweed
  • double bind
  • Maróczy bind

References

  • bind at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • bind in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • bind in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

  • INBD

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *bind-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (to persuade, encourage; constrain). Cognate to Ancient Greek πείθω (peíthō, to persuade, convince),[1] Illyrian *Bindus (Illyrian Neptune) and Thracian Bithus (theonym).

Verb

bind (first-person singular past tense binda, participle bindur)

  1. to convince, persuade, amaze
  2. (archaic or chiefly dialectal) to perform magic, cast a spell, wonder, dazzle

Conjugation

  • be
  • përbindësh

References

  1. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 101

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪnt

Verb

bind

  1. first-person singular present indicative of binden
  2. imperative of binden

Faroese

Etymology

From the verb binda.

Noun

bind n (genitive singular binds, plural bind)

  1. a book binding
  2. a book jacket or cover
  3. a book band
  4. a volume (single book of a publication)
  5. a bandage
  6. armlet, brassard
  7. a sanitary napkin (US) or sanitary towel (UK)
  8. truss

Declension

Declension of bind
n3singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativebindbindiðbindbindini
accusativebindbindiðbindbindini
dativebindibindinumbindumbindunum
genitivebindsbindsinsbindabindanna

German

Verb

bind

  1. singular imperative of binden
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of binden

Nawdm

Noun

bind d (plural bina ɦa)

  1. year
  2. age

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From the verb binde.

Noun

bind n (definite singular bindet, indefinite plural bind, definite plural binda or bindene)

  1. a volume (single book of a published work)
  2. a sling (kind of hanging bandage)
    Han går med armen i bind
  3. a sanitary napkin (US) or sanitary towel (UK)
Derived terms
  • armbind
  • supplementsbind

Verb

bind

  1. imperative of binde

References

  • “bind” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • bd. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From the verb binde.

Noun

bind n (definite singular bindet, indefinite plural bind, definite plural binda)

  1. a sanitary napkin (US) or sanitary towel (UK)
  2. a volume
    1. a bound book
    2. a single book in a multi-book format
    3. binding of a book
      Synonym: omslag
  3. a sling (kind of hanging bandage)

Derived terms

  • armbind
  • bokbind
  • damebind
  • franskbind
  • halsbind
  • menstruasjonsbind
  • munnbind
  • sanitetsbind
  • skinnbind
  • supplementsbind
  • syrgjebind
  • armbind
  • supplementsbind

References

  • “bind” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بند (bend), from Persian بند (band).

Noun

bind n (plural binduri)

  1. (obsolete) flag

Declension

References

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

Swedish

Verb

bind

  1. imperative of binda.

Wolof

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bind/
  • (file)

Verb

bind

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