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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
   - dressing, bandaging
    
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
   - ski binding
    
5. The protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
   "the book had a leather binding";
   - book binding, cover, back

1. Executed with proper legal authority, making a contractual obligation
   "a binding contract"

1. Remain stuck to; keep in place
   "Will this wallpaper bind to the wall?";
   - adhere, hold fast, bond, stick, stick to
    
2. Create social or emotional ties
   - tie, attach, bond
    
3. Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope
   "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
    
4. Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose
   - bandage
    
5. Secure with (or as if with) ropes in order to prevent movement or escape
   "bind the prisoners";
   - tie down, tie up, truss
    
6. Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
   "He's bound by a contract";
   - oblige, hold, obligate
    
7. Provide with a binding
   "bind the books in leather"
    
8. Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
   "They bound their victim to the chair";
   - tie
    
9. (chemistry) form a chemical bond with
   "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
    
10. Cause to be constipated
    "These foods tend to bind you";
    - constipate
     
11. (computing) associate an identifier with a value or object

Derived forms: bindings

See also: valid

Type of: attach, attraction, attractiveness, confine, constrain, cover, fasten, fix, hold, indispose, mechanical device, medical aid, medical care, protection, protective cover, protective covering, relate, restrain, secure, sewing, stitchery

Antonym: unbind, unbrace

Part of: book, volume

Encyclopedia: Binding