Bind

Definition

bind /baÇnd/ v ( pt, pp bound /baƱnd/) ၁။ ~ A (to B); ~ A and B (together) (က) ခ်ည္ေႏွာင္သည္။ The hostages were bound (with ropes) and gagged. ❍ They bound his legs (together) so he couldn't escape. ❍ He was bound to a chair. (ခ) ေႏွာင္ဖြဲ႕သည္။ the feelings that bind him to her ❍ attempts to bind East and West Germany more closely together. ၂။ ~ sth (up) (ႀကိဳးျပား၊ ပတ္တီး စသည္ ျဖင့္) စည္းသည္၊ ပတ္သည္။ bind (up) (ie fasten a bandage so as to cover) a wound. ၃။ ~ sth (in sth) (စာရြက္၊ စာအုပ္) ခ်ဳပ္သည္။ bind a book ❍ a well bound book ❍ two volumes bound in leather. ၄။ ~ sth (with sth) (အနား) ကြပ္သည္။ bind the cuffs of a jacket with leather ❍ bind the edge of a carpet. ၅။ အစိုင္အခဲအျဖစ္ ဖြဲ႕သည္၊ ဖြဲ႕ေစသည္။ Add an egg yolk to the flour and fat to make it bind/to bind the mixture. ၆။ ~ sb (to sth) (esp passive) ဝတၱရား အရ၊ ဥပေဒေၾကာင္းအရ လိုက္နာေဆာင္ရြက္ေစသည္။ They were bound to secrecy (ie made to promise to keep sth secret). ❍ bind sb to pay a debt. n [sing] ( infml ) ကသိကေအာက္အေျခအေန။ ကသိကေအာက္ ကန္႔သတ္ခ်က္။ It's a hell of a bind having to stay indoors on a nice day like this. ❏ binder n ၁။ (စာရြက္၊ စာနယ္ဇင္းမ်ားစုတြဲရန္) ကတ္ထူဖံုး။ a ring binder. ၂။ စာအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သမား။ ၃။ ဂ်ံဳ႐ိုး၊ ေျပာင္း႐ိုးစဥ္းစက္။ ❏ binding n ၁။ [C] စာအုပ္ဖံုး။ books in fine leather bindings. ၂။ [C, U] (ဖဲ၊ ယက္ျပား စသည္) အနားကြပ္ရန္အစ။ adj ~ (on/upon sb) တရားဝင္တာဝန္ခံေစေသာ။ The agreement is binding on both parties. ❏ bind sb over (to keep the peace) [ PHRV ] ( law ) ခံဝန္ခ်ဳပ္ ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုသည္။ The judge bound him over (to keep the peace) for a year.

Examples

1. [bind someone/something with something] : They bound his hands with a rope.
2. [be bound and gagged] : He was found bound and gagged in the boot of a car.
3. Bind the wound up and leave it.
4. [bind something with something] : His bare feet were bound with strips of rag.
5. [bind something together] : The papers were loosely bound together with string.
6. [bind someone together] : The troubles they had shared bound them much closer together.
7. [bind someone to do something] : The treaty binds each country to reduce pollution levels.
8. A beautifully bound journal
9. Add in a little milk to bind the mixture.
10. A black waistcoat bound with gold cord