Bind vs Fringe - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between bind and fringe

is that bind is to put together in a cover, as of books while fringe is to serve as a fringe.

As verbs the difference between bind and fringe

is that bind is to tie; to confine by any ligature while fringe is to decorate with fringe.

As nouns the difference between bind and fringe

is that bind is that which binds or ties while fringe is a decorative border.

As an adjective fringe is

outside the mainstream.

bind

English

Verb

To tie; to confine by any ligature.

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)

They that reap must sheaf and bind .

To cohere or stick together in a mass.

''Just to make the cheese more binding

* (rfdate) (Mortimer)

clay binds by heat.

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.

To exert a binding or restraining influence.

These are the ties that bind .

To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.

to bind''' grain in bundles; to '''bind a prisoner.

To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.

Gravity binds the planets to the sun.

Frost binds the earth.

* (rfdate) Job xxviii. 11.

He bindeth the floods from overflowing.

* (rfdate) Luke xiii. 16.

Whom Satan hath bound , lo, these eighteen years.

To couple.

(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.

* (rfdate) (Milton)

Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.

(legal) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.

(legal) To place under legal obligation to serve.

to bind''' an apprentice; '''bound out to service

To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

(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.

(archaic) To cover, as with a bandage.

to bind up a wound.

(archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.

certain drugs bind the bowels.

To put together in a cover, as of books.

The three novels were bound together.

(computing) 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

Synonyms

* fetter, make fast, tie, fasten, restrain * bandage, dress * restrain, restrict, obligate * * indenture

Derived terms

* bind over - to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc. * bind to - to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. * bind up in - to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in.

Derived terms

* bindweed

Noun

(en noun)

That which binds or ties.

A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.

(music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.

(chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

the Maróczy Bind

Synonyms

* See also

References

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Anagrams

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fringe

English

Noun

(en noun)

A decorative border.

the fringe of a picture

A marginal or peripheral part.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Jeremy Taylor)

the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance

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Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.

The periphery of a town or city.

He lives in the fringe of London.

That part of the hair that hangs down above the eyes; bangs.

Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.

* 1915 , ":

In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe .

* 1981 , , HERmione , page 155,

Fayne in the photograph had a fringe , hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.

* 2007 , , Sophie's Dilemma , page 16,

Ingeborg knew she wasn?t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she?d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn?t either.

“No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.

* 2009 , Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion , page 231,

Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).

(label) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.

interference fringe

Non-mainstream theatre.

The Fringe''; ''Edinburgh Fringe'''''; ''Adelaide '''Fringe

(label) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.

Synonyms

* (hair in front) forelock, bangs (US) *

Derived terms

* fringe benefit * fringy * lunatic fringe

Adjective

(-)

Outside the mainstream.

Synonyms

* nonmainstream

Verb

(fring)

To decorate with fringe.

To serve as a fringe.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2

Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.