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English

Etymology

The verb is from 15th-century Middle English gaggen, Early Modern English gagge, possibly imitative or perhaps related to or influenced by Old Norse gag-háls ("with head thrown backwards"; > Norwegian dialectal gaga (“bent backwards”)). The intransitive sense "to retch" is from 1707.

The noun is from the 16th century, figurative use (for "repression of speech") from the 1620s. The secondary meaning "(practical) joke" is from 1863, of unclear origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

gag (plural gags)

2. A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
3. (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
4. A joke or other mischievous prank.
5. (film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
6. A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
7. (archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
8. Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.

   Synonym: gag grouper

Synonyms

• (legal): gag order
• (joke): See also Thesaurus:joke

Derived terms

• gagless
• sight gag

Descendants

• ? French: gag
• ? Italian: gag
• ? Spanish: gag

Translations

Verb

gag (third-person singular simple present gags, present participle gagging, simple past and past participle gagged)

1. (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.

2. (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
   • 2008, Stephen King, "A Very Tight Place"

     His empty stomach was suddenly full of butterflies, and for the first time since arriving here at scenic Durkin Grove Village, he felt an urge to gag himself. He would be able to think more clearly about this if he just stuck his fingers down his throat […]

3. (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
   • 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:

     They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale instead,

     But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed;

     Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets at their side!

4. (transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
   • 1917, Francis Gregor (translator), De Laudibus Legum Angliae, Sir John Fortescue, written 1468–1471, first published 1543.

     […] some have their mouths gagged to such a wideness, for a long time, whereat such quantities of water are poured in, that their bellies swell to a prodigious degree […]

5. (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.

   When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.

   • c. 1840, Thomas Macaulay, Essay on Machiavelli

     The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked.

6. (transitive, intransitive) To choke; to retch.
7. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, slang) To deceive (someone); to con.
   • 1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 79:

     I endeavoured what I could to soften off the affectation of her sudden change of Disposition; and I gagged the Gentleman with as much ease as my very little ease would allow me to assume.

Derived terms

• gag me with a spoon

Translations

Related terms

• blech
• retch

References

• gag in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• gag at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• agg

French

Etymology

From English gag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

gag m (plural gags)

1. joke

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English gag.

Noun

gag m (invariable)

1. gag, joke

   Synonyms: scherzo, freddura; see also Thesaurus:battuta

Occitan

Noun

gag m (plural gags)

1. jay

Romanian

Etymology

From French gag.

Noun

gag n (plural gaguri)

1. joke

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From English gag.

Noun

gag m (plural gags)

1. gag (joke)

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ka?k?/
• Tone numbers: gag⁸
• Hyphenation: gag

Etymology 1

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Adverb

gag (Sawndip forms ? or ? or ?, old orthography gag)

1. by oneself; alone

   Synonym: (dialectal) haek

2. on one's own; by oneself; without permission

   Synonym: (dialectal) gujgag

3. just; only

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Verb

gag (old orthography gag)

1. to eject; to cough up

   Synonym: (dialectal) gak

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.