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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#m1)

2) To hold things together or make people feel close and united. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#m2)

3) To make someone keep a promise or obey a rule or law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#m3)

4) To fix the pages of a book together inside a cover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#m4)

5) (noun, informal) A difficult situation; "in a bind" means in trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#m5)

6) (noun, UK informal) A boring or annoying task ("What a bind!"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#m6)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#x1)
- Bind the wound with a clean bandage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#x2)
- The egg will bind the ingredients together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#x3)
- Friendship binds the class together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#x4)
- We are bound by the rules of the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#x5)
- Our class poems were bound into a book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#x6)
- I'm in a bit of a bind: I forgot my homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#x7)
- Washing up every night is such a bind. (UK informal) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#x8)
- Take him home and bind his wounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/9/)
- [And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.344/)
- [And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.203/)
- ['Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.178/)
- [None deemeth of thy wound that it may be bound up; thou hast no healing medicines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.820/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bind» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bind/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.