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

Verb

(en verb)

To combine more than one item into one; to put together.

To come together; to meet.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Nature and fortune joined to make thee great.

To come into the company of.

*

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To become a member of.

* , chapter=22

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(computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.

To unite in marriage.

* (John Wycliffe) (1320-1384)

he that joineth his virgin in matrimony

* Bible, (w) xix. 6

What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

(obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.

* (William Tyndale) (1494-1536)

They join them penance, as they call it.

To accept, or engage in, as a contest.

(Milton)