What is the difference between obligate and bind?
obligate | bind |
(transitive, North America, Scottish) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
(transitive, North America, Scottish) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
(transitive, North America, Scottish) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
(biology) Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.
Absolutely indispensable; essential.
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.
* 2008 , Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell (page 33)
* 2009 , Robert Pickering, Beginning F# (page 123)
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.
Bind is a synonym of obligate.
As verbs the difference between obligate and bind
is that obligate is to bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie while bind is to tie; to confine by any ligature.As an adjective obligate
is able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.As a noun bind is
that which binds or ties.obligate
English
(wikipedia obligate)Verb
(obligat)Usage notes
In non-legal usage, almost exclusively used in the passive, in form “obligated' to X” where ‘X’ is a verb infinitive or noun phrase, as in “'''obligated to pay”. Further, it is now only in standard use in American English and some dialects such as Scottish,''Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage,'' p. 675 having disappeared from standard British English by the 20th century, being replaced by obliged (it was previously used in the 17th through 19th centuries).''The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage (1996)Synonyms
* See also:Derived terms
* obligation * obligatoryReferences
Adjective
(en adjective)- an obligate''' parasite; an '''obligate anaerobe.
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