bind /bīnd/

1. To tie or fasten together
2. To pass or put something round
3. To restrain
4. To fix
5. To sew a border on
6. To bandage or tie (up)
7. To fasten the sections together and put a cover on (a book)
8. To impose an obligation on
9. To oblige by oath or promise
10. To contract as an apprentice
11. To hold or cement firmly
12. To cause (dry ingredients) to cohere by adding a small amount of liquid (cookery)
13. (of frost) to make (the earth) stiff and hard
14. To constipate
15. To bore (old sl)

1. To become bound
2. To chafe, restrict free movement
3. To complain (old sl)

1. A tie (music)
2. A difficult or annoying situation, a bore (informal)
3. The indurated clay between layers of coal
4. Capacity, measure (Scot)
5. A stem of the hop or other twiner

—See also bound¹ and bounden

bindˈer noun

1. A person who binds (books, sheaves, etc)
2. Anything that binds, such as a rope, a bandage, a cementing agent, a tie-beam, a header in masonry, or a case or file for binding loose papers in
3. An attachment to a reaping machine for tying the bundles of grain cut and thrown off
4. A reaping machine provided with such an attachment

bindˈery noun

A workplace where books are bound

bindˈing adjective

1. Restraining
2. Obligatory
3. (of specific foods, etc) likely to cause constipation

1. The act of someone who binds
2. Anything that binds
3. The covering of a book

binder twine noun

Twine used in a binder

binding energy noun (nuclear phys)

The difference between the rest mass of a nucleus and that of its constituent protons and neutrons, which is always greater

bindˈweed noun

1. Any of various weeds that trail along the ground and twine themselves around other plants, trees, etc (esp one of the genus Convolvulus)
2. Also (black bindweed) a species of Polygonum

be bound up in

To be wholly devoted to or occupied with

• half-times
• half-tint
• half-tints
• half-title
• half-titles
• half-tone
• half-tones
• half-track
• half-tracks
• half-truth
• half-truths
• half volley
• halfway
• halfway house
• halfway houses
• half-wellington
• halfwit
• halfwits
• halfwitted
• half-year
• half-yearlies
• half-yearly
• halibut
• halibuts
• halicore