Word Finder - bound

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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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• fasten
• fetter
• make fast
• restrain
• tie

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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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• obligate
• restrain
• restrict

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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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• indenture

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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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• bandage
• dress

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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.

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(with infinitive) Obliged (to).

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You are not legally bound to reply.

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(of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.

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(of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.

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Constipated; costive.

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Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.

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Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.

In such a hurry, she was bound to leave something behind that she would need later.

I would rather have a book bound by a hard cover than paperback.

The two bound men were led off to the master's house.

I tried to ease the tension that bound the room like a noose.

I am bound to protect him.

When you put two puppies in a room together, they are bound to start playing.

Amanda felt bound to her family and did not want to move away from them.

Mr. Endicott told me about the great ships that came sailing by from Boston, bound for Europe.

Combing it up into a pony tail, she bound it and eyed her image critically in the mirror.

It was bound to break his heart.

Life was good and bound to get better.

By the end of the month, Japan, bound by treaty with Great Britain, declared war on Germany.

What they would have said and what they would have done she felt bound to say and do.

After wasting her study time hanging out with friends, Rebecca was bound to fail her quiz the next day.

If you ask multiple friends to hang out, one of them is bound to take you up on the offer.

How can I avoid being bound to this responsibility for another year?

It would appear that this title-page was to be substituted for the title-page of the Descriptio of 1614 by those who bound the two books together.

A man was only bound to serve so many (six ?) times, but the land had to find a man annually.

Therefore Protestants are not only free, but bound, to criticize it; indeed, for a Protestant Christian, dogma cannot be said to exist.

Its libraries contained in 1909 98,000 bound volumes and an equal number of pamphlets, and the college had a faculty numbering 113 and a student enrolment of The resources of the college in 1909 were about $3,500,000.

During his long stay in Catalonia he made preparations for a geographical and historical description of this province, which was bound to France by so many political and literary associations.

In company, therefore, with the earl of Norfolk he refused to render foreign service in Gascony, on the plea that they were only bound to serve with the king, who was himself bound for Flanders.

It follows therefore that two hydrocarbon radicals are bound to the carbon monoxide residue with the same strength as they combine to form a paraffin.

Thus oxygen varies according as whether it is linked to hydrogen (hydroxylic oxygen), to two atoms of carbon (ether oxygen), or to one carbon atom (carbonyl oxygen); similarly, carbon varies according as whether it is singly, doubly, or trebly bound to carbon atoms.

In addition to th e se residents or natives of the locality, Shelley, Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clough, Crabb Robinson, Carlyle, Keats, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Mrs Hemans, Gerald Massey and others of less reputation made longer or shorter visits, or were bound by ties of friendship with the poets already mentioned.

They consider themselves bound by the literal interpretation of James v.

Far greater interest attaches to the so-called AngloSaxon Map of the World in the British Museum (Cotton MSS.), where it is bound up in a codex which also contains a copy of the Periegesis of Priscianus.

A freedman, unless he became such by operation of law, remained client of his master, and both were bound by the mutual obligations arising out of that relation.

By the peace of Ghent, December 1814, the United States and England mutually bound themselves to do all in their power to extinguish the traffic. It was at once prohibited in several of the South American states when they acquired independence, as in La Plata, Venezuela and Chile.

The slaves were bound to work for their masters during this period for three-fourths of the day, and were to be liable to corporal punishment if they did not give the due amount of labour.

They were, however, bound to serve the owners of their mothers for a term of 21 years.

Gruay, "green isle" (10), Housay (68), Bruray (44), Bound (2) are members of the group of Out Skerries, about 4 m.

Below him ranked the newly converted Moslem aristocracy, who adopted the dress, titles and etiquette of the Turkish court, without relinquishing their language or many of their old customs. They dwelt in fortified towns or castles, where the vali was only admitted on sufferance for a few days; and, at the outset, they formed a separate military caste, headed by 48 kapetans - landholders exercising unfettered authority over their retainers and Christian serfs, but bound, in return, to provide a company of mounted troops for the service of their sovereign.

It has been a juxtaposition of separate and generally hostile peoples in territories bound under one rule by the military sway of a dominant race.

The latter are bound to pay in to the local authorities all sums collected in five days in town districts, and in fifteen days in villages, if under 1500 piastres; sums of 1500 piastres and over are paid in at once.

It is bound to purchase all tobacco not exported at prices to be agreed between itself and the cultivators; if no agreement can be arrived at, the price is fixed by experts.

The cultivators, on the other hand, may not plant tobacco without permits from the regie, although the power of refusing a permit, except to known smugglers or persons of notoriously bad conduct, seems to be doubtful; nor may they sell to any purchaser, unless for export, except to the regie, while they are bound to deposit the whole of the tobacco crops which they raise in any one year in the entrepots of the regie before the month of August of the year following, [[Table A]].-Showing Revenues ceded to Ottoman Public Debt Administration at Various Periods to 1907-1908.

Suleiman kept the possessions he had won by the sword, Temesvar, Szolnok, Tata and other places in Hungary; Transylvania was assigned to John Sigismund, the Habsburg claim to interference being categorically denied; Ferdinand bound himself to pay, not only the annual tribute of 30,000 ducats, but all the arrears that had meanwhile accumulated.

This concession, given under strong pressure from Russia, aroused the deepest resentment of the Greeks, and was the principal factor in the awakening of the Bulgarian national spirit which subsequent events have done so much to develop. Russian influence at Constantinople had been gradually increasing, and towards the end of 1870 the tsar took advantage of the temporary disabling of France to declare himself no longer bound by those clauses of the Treaty of Paris which restricted Russia's liberty of possessing warships on the Black Sea.

Interpreted in the most general sense, these decrees, which enacted that the council of Constance derived its power immediately from Jesus Christ, and that every one, even the pope, was bound to obey it and every legitimately assembled general council in all that concerned faith, reform, union, &c., were tantamount to the overturning of the constitution of the church by establishing the superiority of the council over the pope.

Hence, when on the battlefield the changing course of events left his antagonists mentally exhausted, he was able to face them with will power neither bound nor broken.

Spain, which was bound by treaty to join Napoleon, was allowed to preserve a show of neutrality by paying a monthly subvention.

The various charity and benevolent institutions are closely bound together on a co-operative basis by the agency of the associated charities.

The ties which bound him to England were now severed, and his health was broken to such a discouraging degree that he determined to remove to another hemisphere.

Patrick's activity was bound to bring him sooner or later into conflict with the High-king Loigaire (reigned 428-467), son of Niall Noigiallach.

Admiral de Rigny left for a cruise in the Levant, and Sir Edward Codrington, hearing that an Egyptian armament was on its way from Alexandria, and believing that it was bound for Hydra, steered for that island, which he reached on the 3rd of September, but on the 12th of September found the Egyptians at anchor with a Turkish squadron at Navarino.

Other parts of the river were colonized by peasants who emigrated with government aid, and were bound to settle in villages, along the Amur, at spots designated by officials.

The alliance which he then concluded with Denmark bound the two northern realms together in a common foreign policy, and he sought besides to facilitate their harmonious co-operation by every means in his power.

Although this measure was bound to set senators and equites at variance, it in no way improved the lot of those chiefly concerned.

Diocletian, having been informed of this conduct, sent for him and earnestly remonstrated with him, but, finding him inflexible, ordered him to be bound to a stake and shot to death.