Bind vs Rim - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between bind and rim

is that bind is to tie; to confine by any ligature while rim is to form a rim on.

As nouns the difference between bind and rim

is that bind is that which binds or ties while rim is an edge around something, especially when circular.

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

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rim

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rim, rym, rime, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

An edge around something, especially when circular.

wheelrim

Verb

(transitive)

To form a rim on.

To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit

Palm trees rim the beach.

A walking path rims the island.

(label) To roll around a rim.

The golf ball rimmed the cup.

The basketball rimmed in and out.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) rim, rym, ryme, reme, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A membrane.

The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.

* {{quote-book, year=1599, author=Shakespeare, title=King Henry V, chapter=Act IV, scene IV - Pistol to a captured French soldier from whom he wants a ransom and whom he does not understand

, passage=Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.}}

Etymology 3

From a variation of ream.

Verb

(rimm)

(label) to lick the anus of a partner as part of the sexual act.

* 2008 , Lexy Harper, Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me) , page 216

When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.

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