bind Význam & definícia

Význam bind v slovenčine

• 0 to tie something or someone tightly or to fasten something:

  • They bound the packages with brightly coloured ribbon.

  • Bind together the two broken ends.

  • The prisoner was bound hand and foot.

  • He had already bound the child's arm when I arrived.

  • The edges of the carpet are bound to stop them fraying.

  • There are several different ways to bind a book, for example you can stitch or stick the pages together.

• 1 (used especially in cooking) to make a mixture stick together in a solid mass, or to be made to stick together like this:

  • Add enough water to bind everything together.

  • The mixture wouldn't bind.

  • Protein's ability to bind iron may enhance iron absorption in the body.

  • The tissue cells will bind strongly to each other.

• 2 to unite people or to make them feel that they share something:

  • The things that bind them together are greater than their differences.

  • "We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us," he said.

  • Close personal ties bind me to this place.

• 3 a difficult or annoying situation in which you are prevented from acting as you might like:

  • Having to visit her every week is a terrible bind.

  • Borrowing money may put you in a real bind.

• 4 to tie someone or something tightly, or to fasten things together:

  • The room was full of wooden boxes bound with twisted wire.

  • fig. The club is home to a mix of people bound together by a love of boats and boating.

  • This contract binds the state to use this land as a park, said Judge Harry Smith.

• 5 a difficult situation in which none of the choices available are good:

  • If you lose a lot of your customers, you’ll soon get in a financial bind.

• 6 if a legal agreement or official decision binds someone, it forces them to do something or to keep a promise:

  • bind sb to do sth The contracts bind investors to maintain the road.

  • be bound to sth We are bound to the original contract

• 7 to agree not to increase the rate of a tax, tariff, etc. above a particular level:

  • bind sth (at sth) Jamaica bound all its industrial tariffs at a uniform ceiling rate of 50%.