Synonym: fasten, oblige, require, restrain, tie, weld, wrap. Antonym: loose, undo, unfasten, untie. Similar words: cabin, ebbing, binary, combine, cabinet, turbine, bombing, hobbing. Meaning: [baɪnd] n. something that hinders as if with bonds. v. 1. stick to firmly 2. create social or emotional ties 3. make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope 4. wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose 5. secure with or as if with ropes 6. bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted 7. form a chemical bond with 8. provide with a binding 9. fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord 10. cause to be constipated.
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61 It was a strange in-between time for Manila, a time when the bind seemed especially strangling.
62 This is not necessarily liberating: it may just be a double bind.
63 A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.
64 To prevent this happening chemical agents known as sequestrants are used which bind up the residues preventing them from dropping out of solution.
65 As they bind to similar DNA sequences and associate with the same proteins, they are likely to be closely related.
66 By investing products with meanings from other sign systems, Williamson argues that receivers are caught up in an ideological bind.
67 Hence social contracts may bind, not all members of a society, but members of some group within society.
68 Carbachol, gastrin, and histamine all bind to specific receptors on parietal cell plasma membranes.
69 In theory, scientists could develop drugs that bind to the dopamine transporter, which would lock the door to cocaine.
70 Use 2 tablespoons of water to bind the flour and butter mixture.
71 These differences help explain why these homologous proteins bind a variety of ligands with different affinities.
72 What leader can bind a people to a settlement wholly repugnant to them?
73 They dig mud from the banks and nudge that into the construction to bind the sticks, leaves and boulders together.
74 The food was scant: weeks when the only thing available was tortillas bind salt.
75 Treaties bind consenting parties only, and strangers to any treaty are legally unaffected by it.
76 I know you go out on patrol with them and bind up their wounds and so on.
77 A ball of green wool was passed around and we used it to bind ourselves together as the singing continued.
78 Peptides shown to bind to HLA-B53 are highlighted in bold type.
79 It offers an escape from the double bind of commentary pithily summarised by Foucault, in the passage I quoted just now.
80 Used together these two strategies comprise that peculiar language game known as a double bind.
81 Delta is negotiating commercial agreements with big health care companies around the world who are seeking to bind haemoglobin into formulations.
82 Quarks bind together to make up larger particles such as the protons and neutrons found in the atomic nucleus.
83 Stir the flour, suet,(http://sentencedict.com) cinnamon and baking powder together then mix in the liquid to bind.
84 Have you summoned the ancient golden strength, to bind me to you once and for all time?
85 The bind arises when the speaker expresses two or more messages which are incompatible, at different levels of communication.
86 Blot: That sounds as if you think we're caught in a double bind from which there's no escape.
87 Stephen saw the white of a field dressing flap as Byrne began to bind the wounds.
88 However, the final, as yet small, family of cell adhesion molecules bind to carbohydrates.
89 But a senior law enforcement source said Monday the residue is an adhesive used to bind plastic parts in airplanes.
90 Did they cease to bind in the early s when various legal restrictions were removed?