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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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... amounting in the currency of the day to a little less than L7, rather more than L50 of our money. The marriage would seem to have been hurried and irregular, and though it may have followed a formal and binding betrothal of a kind that had more sanction then than now, the poet's first child—his daughter Susanna—was born less than six months later. It was not a fortunate union. Twins were born to William and Anne Shakespeare in 1585, and then all record of the home ...

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