Binding
['baɪndɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book; 'the book had a leather binding'.
(noun.) strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration.
(noun.) the capacity to attract and hold something.
(adj.) executed with proper legal authority; 'a binding contract' .
Edited by Laurence--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bind
(a.) That binds; obligatory.
(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
(n.) Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.
(pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Bandage, band, fillet.[2]. Cover, covering.
a. [1]. Astringent, contracting, styptic.[2]. Obligatory, valid.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Restrictive, obligatory, restraining, stringent, styptic, costive, astringent
ANT:Loosening, opening, enlarging, distending
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Examples
- In 1890 this was increased to 3,000 self-binding harvesters, 4,000 reapers, and 2,000 mowers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- At least he thought that the binding was secure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Once on such an occasion Caroline had said to him, looking up from the luxuriant creeper she was binding to its frame, Ah! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Man was binding himself into new and larger and more efficient combinations indeed, but at a price. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The paper industry, with book binding machines, and paper box machines, is a fertile field of invention. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These antique guns were made by welding longitudinal bars of iron together and binding them by iron rings shrunk on while hot. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When we were about to sign the above-mentioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is said that the self-binding reaper has reduced the cost of harvesting grain to less than half a cent a bushel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The binding fact we must face in all our calculations, and so in politics too, is that you cannot recover what is passed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Payne put a wire in the binding-post of the battery, the motor started, and an assistant began sawing a heavy oak log. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The copper mould or medal, _c_, is suspended in the solution by a wire, which is held tight by the binding-screw, _d_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- A porous tube, _b_, holds a rod of amalgamated zinc, to the top of which a binding-screw is soldered. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- You'd better go back to binding edges, she said drily. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She was the last tie binding us to the ancient state of things. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- With a man on each side holding these ropes, the mule was released from his other bindings and allowed to rise. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A couple of glazed book-cases were here, containing standard works in stout gilt bindings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The gilt bindings of the seven handsome little volumes caught the old lady's eye. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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