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Binding

adjective

1.

Executed with proper legal authority.

noun

1.

The capacity to attract and hold something.

2.

Strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration.

3.

The act of applying a bandage. Synonyms: bandaging, dressing.

4.

One of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall. Synonym: ski binding.

5.

The protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book. Synonyms: back, book binding, cover.

Bind

verb

(past bound; past part. bound, formerly bounden; pres. part. binding)

1.

Stick to firmly. Synonyms: adhere, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to.

2.

Create social or emotional ties. Synonyms: attach, bond, tie.

3.

Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope.

4.

Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose. Synonym: bandage.

5.

Secure with or as if with ropes. Synonyms: tie down, tie up, truss. "Tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"

6.

Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted. Synonyms: hold, obligate, oblige. "I'll hold you by your promise"

7.

Provide with a binding.

8.

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord. Synonym: tie.

9.

Form a chemical bond with.

10.

Cause to be constipated. Synonym: constipate.

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"Binding" Quotes from Famous Books

... the back of her mind. She had gone to sleep dwelling upon her promise to meet Vane at Rosamond's Pond. Did she mean to keep that promise? She could not decide. She had given her consent under a sort of compulsion. Was it therefore binding? At any rate if she went to Hampstead the ...

— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce

... Gentlemen, you may call the union which binds us an empire, you may call it a federation, you may call it an offensive and defensive alliance of the closest kind—you may call it what you will—the name is of subordinate consequence while mutual sympathy and sentiment retain that binding force which, as we have seen in this Jubilee week, you are all so generously prepared to acknowledge in your relations with the old country. Perhaps I may say a few words on this occasion with reference to the mutual advantages which are afforded by our remaining ...

— The Last Voyage - to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' • Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey

... The back grew rounder and rounder. 'But you can find money for M. Fage.' Astier started, sat up, and looked uneasily at his wife. Money for M. Fage? What did she mean?' Why, of course,' she went on, delighted to have forced the barrier of his silence, 'of course it takes money to do all that binding. And what's the good of it, I should like to know, for all ...

— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet

... Tailor. Oxbridge do. Oxbridge do. Bill for horses. Haberdasher, for shirts and gloves. Printseller. Jeweller. Books. College Cook. Binding. Grump, for desserts. Hairdresser and Perfumery. Bootmaker. Hotel bill in London. Wine Merchant ...

— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray

... need for Wemple or Davies to speak further in the affair closest to their hearts. Their truce to love-making had been made as binding as it was brief, and each rival honored the other with a firm belief that he would commit no infraction of the truce. Afterward was another matter. In the meantime they were one in the effort to get Beth Drexel back to ...

— Dutch Courage and Other Stories • Jack London

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