| bind | 1. To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner. 2. To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. "He bindeth the floods from overflowing." (Job xxviii. 11) "Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years." (Luke xiii. 16) 3. To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound. 4. To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part. 5. To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels. 6. To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment. 7. To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book. 8. To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. "Who made our laws to bind us, not himself." (Milton) 9. To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; especially. Under the obligation of a bond or covenant. To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; sometimes with out; as, bound out to service. To bind over, to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc. To bind to, to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. To bind up in, to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in. Synonym: To fetter, tie, fasten, restrain, restrict, oblige. Origin: Bound; Bound, formerly Bounden; Binding] [AS. Bindan, perfect tense band, bundon, p. P. Bunden; akin to D. & G. Binden, Dan. Binde, Sw. & Icel. Binda, Goth. Bindan, Skr. Bandh (for bhandh) to bind, cf. Gr. (for) cable, and L. Offendix. 1. To tie; to confine by any ligature. "They that reap must sheaf and bind." (Shak) 2. To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. 3. To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. 4. To exert a binding or restraining influence. 1. That which binds or ties. 2. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially. A hop vine; a bine. 3. <chemistry> Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron. 4. A ligature or tie for grouping notes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| binder | 1. A broad bandage, especially one encircling the abdomen. 2. Anything that binds. See: bind. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bindheimite | <chemical> An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite. Origin: From Bindheim, a German who analyzed it. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bindin | <biochemistry> Molecule of around 30 kD normally sequestered in the acrosomal vesicle of a sea urchin spermatozoon and that through its specific lectin like binding to the vitelline membrane of the egg confers species specificity in fertilization. (18 Nov 1997) |
| binding | <biochemistry, chemistry, molecular biology> The adherence of molecules to one another, for example, enzymes to substrates, antibodies to antigens, DNA strands to their complementary strands. Binding occurs because the shape and chemical natures of parts of the molecules surfaces are complementary. A common metaphor is the "lock-and-key," used to describe how enzymes fit around their substrate. (14 Nov 1997) |
| binding constant | <chemistry> Reciprocal of dissociation constant. A measure of the extent of a reversible association between two molecular species at equilibrium. (18 Nov 1997) |
| binding energy | <chemistry, radiobiology> The binding energy of a nucleus is the minimum energy required to dissociate it into its component neutrons and protons. Neutron or proton binding energies are those required to remove a neutron or proton, respectively, from a nucleus. Electron binding energy is that required to remove an electron from an atom or a molecule. (16 Dec 1997) |
| binding sites | The reactive parts of a macromolecule that directly participate in its specific combination with another molecule. (12 Dec 1998) |
| binding sites, antibody | Local surface sites on antibodies which react with antigen determinant sites on antigens. They are formed from parts of the variable regions of the fab fragment of the immunoglobulin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bindweed | <botany> A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. Arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. "The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings." (Tennyson) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| double bind | A type of personal interaction in which one receives two mutually conflicting verbal or nonverbal instructions or demands from the same person or different individuals, resulting in a situation in which either compliance or noncompliance with either alternative threatens one of the needed relationships. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| double bind theory | Contradictions in verbal and behavioural communication between parent and child (patient) which entrap the child because he is unable to comment on the incongruity or to escape from the situation. (12 Dec 1998) |