[bʌɪnd], (Verb)

Definitions:
- tie or fasten (something) tightly together
(e.g: they bound her hands and feet)

- stick together or cause to stick together in a single mass
(e.g: mix the flour with the coconut and enough egg white to bind them)

- cause (people) to feel united
(e.g: it's music that has bound us together)

- impose a legal or contractual obligation on
(e.g: a party who signs a document will normally be bound by its terms)

- fix together and enclose (the pages of a book) in a cover
(e.g: a small, fat volume, bound in red morocco)

- trim (the edge of a piece of material) with a decorative strip
(e.g: a frill with the edges bound in a contrasting colour)

- (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

- (of a rule or set of grammatical conditions) determine the relationship between (coreferential noun phrases)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English bindan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German binden, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit bandh

[bʌɪnd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a problematical situation
(e.g: he is in a bind that gets worse with every passing minute)

- a statutory constraint
(e.g: the moral bind of the law)




Phrases:

Origin:
Old English bindan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German binden, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit bandh