Unbind vs Bind - What's the difference?

In figuratively terms the difference between unbind and bind

is that unbind is to set free from a debt, contract or promise while bind is to oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.

As verbs the difference between unbind and bind

is that unbind is to take bindings off while bind is to tie; to confine by any ligature.

As a noun bind is

that which binds or ties.

unbind

English

Verb

To take bindings off.

(figuratively) To set free from a debt, contract or promise.

To disable a key binding.

* Douglas Chick, Minecraft Secrets Book Cheat Codes (page 23)

Unbinds the specified key from a command

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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