different between bind vs fringe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology

From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindan? (compare West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, German binden, Danish binde), from Proto-Indo-European *b?énd?-e-ti, from *b?end?- (“to tie”)

Compare Welsh benn (“cart”), Latin offend?x (“knot, band”), Lithuanian beñdras (“partner”), Albanian bend (“servant, henchman”), Ancient Greek ?????? (peîsma, “cable, rope”), Persian ????? (bastan, “to bind”), Sanskrit ?????? (bándhati). Doublet of bandana.

Verb

bind (third-person singular simple present binds, present participle binding, simple past bound, past participle bound or (archaic, rare) bounden)

1. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
2. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.

   • unlocks their [clay's] binding Quality.

3. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

4. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.

5. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.

   Synonyms: fetter, make fast, tie, fasten, restrain

6. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
7. (transitive) To couple.
8. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.

   Synonyms: restrain, restrict, obligate

9. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
10. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.

    Synonym: indenture

11. (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
12. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.

13. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.

    Synonyms: bandage, dress

14. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.

15. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.

16. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
17. (transitive, programming) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
    • 2008, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell (page 33)

      We bind the variable n to the value 2, and xs to "abcd".
18. (transitive, programming) To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
19. (Britain, dialect) To complain; to whine about something.
20. (intransitive, LGBT) To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

bind (plural binds)

1. That which binds or ties.
2. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation

3. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
4. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
5. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

6. The indurated clay of coal mines.

Derived terms

• bindweed

References

• bind at OneLook Dictionary Search
• bind in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• bind in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• INBD

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *bind-, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd?- (“to persuade, encourage; constrain”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ????? (peíth?, “to persuade, convince”), Illyrian *Bindus (“Illyrian Neptune”) and Thracian Bithus (Bithus, “theonym”).

Verb

bind (first-person singular past tense binda, participle bindur)

1. to convince, persuade, amaze
2. (archaic or chiefly dialectal) to perform magic, cast a spell, wonder, dazzle

Conjugation

Related terms

• be
• përbindësh

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

bind

1. first-person singular present indicative of binden
2. imperative of binden

Faroese

Etymology

From the verb binda.

Noun

bind n (genitive singular binds, plural bind)

1. a book binding
2. a book jacket or cover
3. a book band
4. a volume (single book of a publication)
5. a bandage
6. armlet, brassard
7. a sanitary napkin (US) or sanitary towel (UK)
8. truss

Declension

German

Verb

bind

1. singular imperative of binden
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of binden

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From the verb binde

Noun

bind n (definite singular bindet, indefinite plural bind, definite plural binda or bindene)

1. a volume (single book of a published work)
2. a sling (kind of hanging bandage)

   Han går med armen i bind

3. a sanitary napkin (US) or sanitary towel (UK)

Derived terms

• armbind
• supplementsbind

Etymology 2

Verb

bind

1. imperative of binde

References

• “bind” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bd. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From the verb binde.

Noun

bind n (definite singular bindet, indefinite plural bind, definite plural binda)

1. a sanitary napkin (US) or sanitary towel (UK)
2. a volume
   1. a bound book
   2. a single book in a multi-book format
   3. binding of a book

      Synonym: omslag

3. a sling (kind of hanging bandage)

Derived terms

References

• “bind” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Verb

bind

1. imperative of binda.

Wolof

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bind/

Verb

bind

1. to write

   Jàngalekat jaa ngiy bind. - The teacher (here) is writing.

English

Etymology

From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural). (Cognates include German Franse and Danish frynse.) Doublet of fimbria.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Noun

fringe (plural fringes)

1. A decorative border.

   the fringe of a picture

2. A marginal or peripheral part.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
3. Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
4. The periphery of a town or city (or other area).
5. (Britain) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.

   Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.

   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

     In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.

   • “No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.

   • 2009, Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion, page 231,

     Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).

6. (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.

   interference fringe

7. Non-mainstream theatre.

   The Fringe; Edinburgh Fringe; Adelaide Fringe

8. (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
9. (golf) The area around the green
10. (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 20:

      All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves.

11. (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.

Synonyms

• (members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views): fringe group
• (periphery of a town or city): outskirts

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

fringe (not comparable)

1. Outside the mainstream.

Synonyms

• alternative
• nonmainstream

Translations

Verb

fringe (third-person singular simple present fringes, present participle fringing, simple past and past participle fringed)

1. (transitive) To decorate with fringe.
2. (transitive) To serve as a fringe.

Translations

Anagrams

• Finger, finger