bind

«bind» in Mova's school dictionary: To tie something tightly with string, rope or cloth — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (bind, binds, bound, binding); noun (a bind — informal)

meaning for a pupil

1) To tie something tightly with string, rope or cloth. tree →

2) To hold things together or make people feel close and united. tree →

3) To make someone keep a promise or obey a rule or law. tree →

4) To fix the pages of a book together inside a cover. tree →

5) (noun, informal) A difficult situation; "in a bind" means in trouble. tree →

6) (noun, UK informal) A boring or annoying task ("What a bind!"). tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories (tie the prisoner's hands), first aid (bind a wound), science (flour and egg bind the mix), law and promises (bound by the rules). Phrases: in a bind, bind together, bound by, bound book.

examples

• The pirates bound his hands with rope. tree →
• Bind the wound with a clean bandage. tree →
• The egg will bind the ingredients together. tree →
• Friendship binds the class together. tree →
• We are bound by the rules of the game. tree →
• Our class poems were bound into a book. tree →
• I'm in a bit of a bind: I forgot my homework. tree →
• Washing up every night is such a bind. (UK informal) tree →
• Take him home and bind his wounds. tree →

note

Irregular: bind, bound, bound (not "binded"). "Bound" also means "certain" (it's bound to rain) and "going to" (bound for London). Noun: binding (book cover); adjective binding (a binding promise must be kept).

In the corpora

• A promise cannot bind you to stand by while someone comes to harm; keeping someone safe outweighs a promise.
• And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
• And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.
• 'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.'
• None deemeth of thy wound that it may be bound up; thou hast no healing medicines.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bind» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.