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Binding

adjective

1.

Executed with proper legal authority.

noun

1.

The capacity to attract and hold something.

2.

Strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration.

3.

The act of applying a bandage. Synonyms: bandaging, dressing.

4.

One of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall. Synonym: ski binding.

5.

The protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book. Synonyms: back, book binding, cover.

Bind

verb

(past bound; past part. bound, formerly bounden; pres. part. binding)

1.

Stick to firmly. Synonyms: adhere, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to.

2.

Create social or emotional ties. Synonyms: attach, bond, tie.

3.

Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope.

4.

Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose. Synonym: bandage.

5.

Secure with or as if with ropes. Synonyms: tie down, tie up, truss. "Tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"

6.

Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted. Synonyms: hold, obligate, oblige. "I'll hold you by your promise"

7.

Provide with a binding.

8.

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord. Synonym: tie.

9.

Form a chemical bond with.

10.

Cause to be constipated. Synonym: constipate.

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"Binding" Quotes from Famous Books

... occasion, that I am a horror to her. Let those who will accept such insults. My Christianity does not go far enough to offer her the right cheek too. And shall I tell you something? To spoil her game, I should be capable, in spite of all the life preservers in the world, of binding Schorlin to me in ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... remembering its happy outcome, she said to herself that it should be marked by triple lines of red. They had gone down to the place, strangers in a strange land, they were coming away with some of the warmest friendships of their lives binding them fast to it. Down there Jack had had his wonderful recovery, which was above and beyond all that their wildest hopes had pictured. And, too, it was the last place where she would have expected to meet Phil Tremont again. Yet he had appeared ...

— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston

... and by no means inspired by hope, Brenda led the way to the Arnold wagons, where I found the father and mother on their knees beside an ox, engaged in binding rawhide "boots" to the animal's feet. These boots were squares cut from a fresh hide procured from the last ox slaughtered by the soldier-butcher. The foot of the ox being set in the centre, the square was gathered about the ankle and fastened ...

— Captured by the Navajos • Charles A. Curtis

... that our Lord does not avail Himself of the distinction between God's commandment and men's exposition of it. He does not embarrass himself with two controversies at once. At fit times He disputed Rabbinical authority, and branded their casuistry as binding grievous burdens on men; but here He allows their assumption of the equal authority of their commentary and of the text to pass unchallenged, and accepts the statement that His disciples had been doing ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

... both combatants went down. In a moment afterwards, the young warrior re-appeared without his antagonist, who was seen no more: but his pursuers had already surrounded him. They secured him without difficulty, carried him to the shore, and there binding his hands behind him with a strong grape-vine, led him ...

— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones

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