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   bind

   /bʌɪnd/

   verb

   • 1. tie or fasten (something) tightly together: "they bound her hands and feet" Similar tietie upfasten (together)hold togethersecuremake fastattachropestraplashtrusstetherhitchchainfetterpinionshacklehobblemoorOpposite untierelease
   • ▪ 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" Similar bandagedresscoverwrapswatheswaddlestrap uptape up
   • ▪ (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" Similar stickcohere
   • ▪ 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" Similar unitejoinbondknit togetherdraw togetheryoke togetherOpposite separate
   • 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" Similar constrainrestrictconfinerestraintie hand and foottie downshacklehamperhinderinhibitcramp someone's styleliterary:trammel
   • ▪ make a contractual or enforceable undertaking: formal "the government cannot bind itself as to the form of subsequent legislation" Similar commit oneselfundertakegive an undertakingpledgevowpromisesweargive one's word
   • ▪ 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" Similar trimhemedgeborderfringerimbandfinisharchaic:purfle
   • 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).

   noun

   • 1. a problematical situation: "he is in a bind that gets worse with every passing minute" Similar predicamentawkward situationquandarydilemmaplightdifficult situationcleft stickmessquagmireimpassedouble bindinformal:spottight spothole
   • ▪ a nuisance: informal British "the travelling can be a bit of a bind" Similar nuisanceannoyanceinconvenienceborebothersource of irritationirritantproblemtrialinformal:painpain in the neckpain in the backsideheadachehassledragaggravationpestpain in the buttfair cownarkvulgar slang:pain in the arsepain in the assdated:infliction
   • 2. a statutory constraint: formal "the moral bind of the law"
   • 3. another term for tie
   • 4. another term for bine

   Word Origin Old Englishbindan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German binden, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit bandh.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ligand_(biochemistry)Ligand (biochemistry) - Wikipedia

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   Jul 12, 2024 · Myoglobin (blue) with its ligand heme (orange) bound. Based on . In biochemistry and pharmacology, a ligand is a substance that forms a complex with a biomolecule to serve a biological purpose. The etymology stems from Latin ligare, which means 'to bind'.In protein-ligand binding, the ligand is usually a molecule which produces a signal by binding to a site on a target protein.

3. www.cloudns.net › blog › bind-explained-a-powerful-tool-for-dns-managementBIND Explained: A Powerful Tool for DNS Management

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   Jun 26, 2024 · BIND plays a critical role in maintaining the functionality and accessibility of the internet as we know it today. History of BIND. The history of BIND dates back to the early 1980s when it was developed at the University of California, Berkeley, by four graduate students. BIND’s first version, known as BIND 4, was released in 1988.

4. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › bind overBind over Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   Jun 24, 2024 · bind over: [verb] to put under a bond to do something (such as to appear in court).

5. www.britannica.com › science › chemical-bondingChemical bonding | Definition, Types, & Examples | Britannica

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   Jun 27, 2024 · Chemical bonding, any of the interactions that account for the association of atoms into molecules, ions, crystals, and other species. When atoms approach one another, their electrons interact and tend to distribute themselves in space so that the total energy is lower than it would be in any alternative arrangement.

6. lkml.org › lkml › 2024/7/23LKML: Sunyeal Hong: [PATCH v4 1/4] dt-bindings: clock: add...

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   19 hours ago · Add dt-schema for ExynosAuto v920 SoC clock controller. Add device tree clock binding definitions for below CMU blocks. - CMU_TOP - CMU_PERIC0 Signed-off-by: Sunyeal Hong <sunyeal.hong@samsung.com>

7. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › bound upBound up Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   Jul 2, 2024 · The meaning of BOUND UP is closely involved or associated —usually used with with. How to use bound up in a sentence.

8. pwskills.com › blog › static-binding-dynamic-binding-detailed-comparisonStatic Binding vs Dynamic Binding A Detailed Comparison

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   3 days ago · Binding is a crucial connection linking a function call to its matching function definition. ... This is because the class type is known beforehand, so the connection between calls and definitions can be decided immediately. Some of the advantages of using the Static Binding are as follows:

9. www.knowledgehut.com › blog › web-developmentTwo-Way Data Binding in Angular with ngModel [Examples] -...

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   Jul 1, 2024 · Both Property Binding and Event Binding are used in Angular to provide two-way data binding. The syntax is as follows: Data 1 (input) = 'event.target.value' (input) It's possible to use two-way data binding with angular two-way binding. x thanks to the ngModel directive.

10. dictionary.cambridge.org › thesaurus › bindingsBINDINGS - 2 Synonyms and Antonyms - Cambridge English

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    Jul 10, 2024 · BINDINGS - Synonyms, related words and examples | Cambridge English Thesaurus

11. www.nature.com › articles › s41467/024/50275-3Ubiquitous purine sensor modulates diverse signal transduction...

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    Jul 12, 2024 · Purines control intracellular energy homeostasis and nucleotide synthesis, and act as signaling molecules. Here, the authors combine structural and sequence information to define a purine-binding ...