Bind vs Ward - What's the difference?

bind | ward |

As a verb bind

is to tie; to confine by any ligature.

As a noun bind

is that which binds or ties.

As a proper noun ward is

for a guard or watchman.

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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References

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Anagrams

* English irregular verbs ----

ward

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ward, from (etyl) . Cognate with German Wart.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic, or, obsolete) A guard; a guardian or watchman.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xi:

no gate they found, them to withhold, / Nor ward to wait at morne and euening late [...].

Etymology 2

From (etyl) ward, warde, from (etyl) ; English guard is a parallel form which came via Old French.

Noun

(en noun)

Protection, defence.

# (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden .

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

the best ward of mine honour

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

The assieged castle's ward / Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

For want of other ward , / He lifted up his hand, his front to guard.

# The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc. ).

#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:

Before the dore sat selfe-consuming Care, / Day and night keeping wary watch and ward , / For feare least Force or Fraud should vnaware / Breake in

# Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.

#* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book V:

So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde , surely to be kepte as noble presoners.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward .

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.

# An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area, or a social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering, approaching and/or even from being able to locate said-protected premises

# (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.

# (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Thou knowest my old ward ; here I lay, and thus I bore my point.

A protected place.

# (archaic) An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.

#* 1942 , (Rebecca West), Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate 2006, page 149:

Diocletian.

#* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 78:

With the castle so crowded, the outer ward had been given over to guests to raise their tents and pavilions, leaving only the smaller inner yards for training.

# A section or subdivision of a prison.

# An administrative division of a borough, city or council.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, / Dealing an equal share to every ward .

# (UK) A division of a forest.

# (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.

# A room in a hospital where patients reside.

#* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 16, author=Denis Campbell, work=Guardian

, title= Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients' , passage=Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.}}

A person under guardianship.

# A minor looked after by a guardian.

#* , chapter=22

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}

# (obsolete) An underage orphan.

An object used for guarding.

# The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.

#*, II.1:

A man must thorowly sound himselfe, and dive into his heart, and there see by what wards or springs the motions stirre.

#* Tomlinson

The lock is mademore secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.

#* 1893 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), ‘The Resident Patient’, Norton 2005, page 628:

With the help of a wire, however, they forced round the key. Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward , where the pressure was applied.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) warden, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.

* Spenser

Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight / To ward the same.

To defend, to protect.

* Shakespeare

Tell him it was a hand that warded him / From a thousand dangers.

* 1603 , John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , II.3:

they went to seeke their owne death, and rushed amidst the thickest of their enemies, with an intention, rather to strike, than to ward themselves.

To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off .

* Daniel

Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.

* Addison

The pointed javelin warded off his rage.

* I. Watts

It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.

To be vigilant; to keep guard.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:

They for vs fight, they watch and dewly ward , / And their bright Squadrons round about vs plant [...].

To act on the defensive with a weapon.

Synonyms

* (to fend off) ward off

Anagrams

* draw