binding
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Definitions ofbinding
- To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- To cohere or stick together in a mass.
Example: "Just to make the cheese more binding"
- To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
Example: "I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while."
- To exert a binding or restraining influence.
Example: "These are the ties that bind."
- To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
Example: "to bind grain in bundles to bind a prisoner"
- To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
Example: "Frost binds the earth."
- To couple.
- To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
Example: "to bind the conscience to bind by kindness bound by affection commerce binds nations to each other"
- To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
- To place under legal obligation to serve.
Synonyms: indenture
Example: "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.
- To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
Example: "to bind a belt about one to bind a compress upon a wound"
- To cover, as with a bandage.
Example: "to bind up a wound"
- To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.
Example: "Certain drugs bind the bowels."
- To put together in a cover, as of books.
Example: "The three novels were bound together."
- To make two or more elements stick together.
- To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
- To complain; to whine about something.
- An item (usually rope, tape, or string) used to hold two or more things together.
- The spine of a book where the pages are held together.
- A finishing on a seam or hem of a garment.
- The association of a named item with an element of a program.
- The interface of a library with a programming language other than one it is written in.
Example: "The Python binding is automatically generated."
- The action or result of making two or more molecules stick together.
- (of an agreement, contract, etc.) Imposing stipulations or requirements that must be honoured.
Example: "This contract is a legally binding agreement."
- (of food) Having the effect of counteracting diarrhea.
Example: "Bananas and white bread are sometimes considered binding."
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