bindest English
Verb
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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
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* 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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blindest English
Adjective
(head)
(blind)
Verb
(head)
blind English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) blinde
Adjective
( er)
(not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
* Shakespeare
- He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
* 1883 , ,
- He was plainly blind , for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose...
(not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
(comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
- The lovers were blind to each other's faults.
- Authors are blind to their own defects.
(not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.
- a blind''' path; a '''blind''' ditch; a '''blind corner
* Milton
- the blind mazes of this tangled wood
(not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; as, a blind hole, a blind alley.
(not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage.
- a blind''' wall, open only at one end; a '''blind''' alley; a '''blind gut
smallest or slightest in phrases such as
- I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.
- ''We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.
(not comparable) without any prior knowledge.
- He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
(not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
- blind deference
- blind punishment
* Jay
- This plan is recommended neither to blind' approbation nor to ' blind reprobation.
Unintelligible or illegible.
- a blind''' passage in a book; '''blind writing
(horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- blind''' buds; '''blind flowers
Derived terms
* blind alley
* blind as a bat
* blind curve
* blind date
* blind drunk (See also )
* blind gut
* blind map
* blind pig
* blind pool
* blind spot
* blind stamp
* the blind leading the blind
* blind tiger
* blinders
* blindfish
* blindfold
* blindman's buff
* blinds
* blindworm
* double-blind
*
* love is blind
* moon-blind
* night-blind
* purblind
* rob somebody blind
* snow-blind
* stereoblind
* word-blind
See also
* invisible (unable to be seen )
* anosmic
* deaf
* print disabled
Noun
( en noun)
A covering for a window to keep out light. The may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
* '>citation
A mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
Any device intended to conceal or hide.
- a duck blind
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
(military) A blindage.
A halting place.
- (Dryden)
No score.
(poker) A forced bet.
(poker) A player who is or was forced to make a bet.
Synonyms
* (destination sign) rollsign (mainly US)
Derived terms
* big blind
* blinders
* small blind
* Venetian blind
* blind map
See also
* curtain
* jalousie
Verb
( en verb)
To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded .
- Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?
* South
- A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is a much greater.
(slang, obsolete) To curse.
* 1890 , Rudyard Kipling,
- If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
- Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind ;
- Be handy and civil, and then you will find
- That it's beer for the young British soldier.
To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
* Dryden
- Such darkness blinds the sky.
* Stillingfleet
- The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
Derived terms
* blind with science
* blinder
* blinding
* blindness
Adverb
( en adverb)
Without seeing; unseeingly.
(poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.
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