bind
- IPA[bʌɪnd]
英式
- tie or fasten (something) tightly together；restrain (someone) by tying their hands and feet
- a problematical situation；a nuisance
verb: bind, 3rd person present: binds, gerund or present participle: binding, past tense: bound, past participle: bound
noun: bind, plural noun: binds
- 釋義
- 片語
動詞
- 1. tie or fasten (something) tightly together they bound her hands and feet the logs were bound together with ropes 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. stick together or cause to stick together 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.
- ▪ hold by chemical bonding a protein in a form that can bind DNA
- ▪ (of a food or medicine) make (someone) constipated eating foods that are low in fibre can bind you up
- 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 the council should seek to bind the parties to a programme of environmental improvements
- ▪ 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
- ▪ 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 frill with the edges bound in a contrasting colour 同義詞
- 7. (of a quantifier) be applied to (a given variable) so that the variable falls within its scope. For example, in an expression of the form ‘For every x, if x is a dog, x is an animal’, the universal quantifier is binding the variable x.
- 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 bind that gets worse with every passing minute 同義詞
- ▪ British informal a nuisance the travelling can be a bit of a bind I know being disturbed on Christmas Day is a bind 同義詞
- 2. formal a statutory constraint the moral bind of the law
- 3. another term for tie
- 4. another term for bine
