Blunt vs Bind - What's the difference?
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Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; not sharp.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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, chapter=17 Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
Hard to impress or penetrate.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
A short needle with a strong point.
(smoking) A marijuana cigar.
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(UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
* Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
(figuratively) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
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To tie; to confine by any ligature.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
To cohere or stick together in a mass.
* (rfdate) (Mortimer)
To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
To exert a binding or restraining influence.
To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
* (rfdate) Job xxviii. 11.
* (rfdate) Luke xiii. 16.
To couple.
(figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
* (rfdate) (Milton)
(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 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.
(archaic) To cover, as with a bandage.
(archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.
To put together in a cover, as of books.
(computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
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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.
As nouns the difference between blunt and bind
is that blunt is blunt (marijuana cigar) while bind is that which binds or ties.As a verb bind is
to tie; to confine by any ligature.blunt
English
Adjective
(er)- The murderous knife was dull and blunt .
The Three Corpse Trick, section=chapter 5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
- His wits are not so blunt .
- the blunt admission that he had never liked my company
- a plain, blunt man
- I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
Synonyms
* (having a thick edge or point) dull, pointless, coarse * (dull in understanding) stupid, obtuse * (abrupt in address) curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harshDerived terms
* blunt instrument * bluntly * bluntnessNoun
(en noun)- Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt
Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit. }}
See also
* bluntly * dull ----bind
English
Verb
- They that reap must sheaf and bind .
- ''Just to make the cheese more binding
- clay binds by heat.
- I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while.
- These are the ties that bind .
- to bind''' grain in bundles; to '''bind a prisoner.
- Gravity binds the planets to the sun.
- Frost binds the earth.
- He bindeth the floods from overflowing.
- Whom Satan hath bound , lo, these eighteen years.
- to bind''' the conscience; to '''bind''' by kindness; '''bound''' by affection; commerce '''binds nations to each other.
- Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.
- to bind''' an apprentice; '''bound out to service
- to bind a belt about one
- to bind a compress upon a wound.
- to bind up a wound.
- certain drugs bind the bowels.
- The three novels were bound together.
- We bind the variable
nto the value2, andxsto"abcd".
- 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 * * indentureDerived 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
* bindweedNoun
(en noun)- the Maróczy Bind
