bind
- IPA[bīnd]
美式
- tie or fasten (something) tightly；restrain (someone) by tying their hands and feet
- a problematical situation；a statutory constraint
verb: bind, 3rd person present: binds, gerund or present participle: binding, past tense: bound, past participle: bound
- 釋義
- 片語
動詞
- 1. tie or fasten (something) tightly the logs were bound together with ropes the magician bound her wrists with a silk scarf 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ restrain (someone) by tying their hands and feet the raider then bound and gagged Mr. Glenn
- ▪ wrap (something) tightly her hair was bound up in a towel
- ▪ bandage (a wound) he cleaned the wound and bound it up with a clean dressing they bound his wounds as best they could, using pieces of fabric ripped from their shirts 同義詞
- ▪ (of an object) be encircled by something, typically metal bands, so as to have greater strength an ancient oak chest bound with brass braces
- 2. cohere or cause to cohere in a single mass mix the flour with the coconut and enough egg white to bind them clay is made up chiefly of tiny soil particles that bind together tightly 同義詞
- ▪ cause (painting pigments) to form a smooth medium by mixing them with oil use a white that is bound in linseed oil
- ▪ hold by chemical bonding a protein in a form that can bind DNA
- 3. cause (people) to feel united it's music that has bound us together we have many ties that bind us—historical, cultural, and economical 同義詞 反義詞
- 4. impose a legal or contractual obligation on a party who signs a document will normally be bound by its terms
- ▪ be hampered or constrained by Sarah did not want to be bound by a rigid timetable 同義詞
- ▪ formal make a contractual or enforceable undertaking the government cannot bind itself as to the form of subsequent legislation 同義詞
- ▪ secure (a contract), typically with a sum of money.
- ▪ indenture (someone) as an apprentice he was bound apprentice at the age of sixteen
- 5. fix together and enclose (the pages of a book) in a cover a small, fat volume, bound in red morocco
- 6. trim (the edge of a piece of material) with a decorative strip a ruffle with the edges bound in a contrasting color 同義詞
- 7. (of a quantifier) be applied to (a given variable) so that the variable falls within its scope.
- 8. (of a rule or set of grammatical conditions) determine the relationship between (coreferential noun phrases).
名詞
- 1. a problematical situation he is in a political bind over the welfare issue 同義詞
- 2. formal a statutory constraint the moral bind of the law
- 3. another term for tie
- 4. another term for bine
