different between squeeze vs bind

English

Etymology

From earlier squize, squise (whence also dialectal English squizzen and squeege), first attested around 1600, probably an alteration of quease (which is attested since 1550), from Middle English queisen (“to squeeze”), from Old English cw?san, cw?san (“to crush, squeeze”), of unknown origin, perhaps imitative (compare Swedish qväsa, kväsa (“to squeeze, bruise, crush; quell”), Dutch kwetsen (“to injure, hurt”), German quetschen (“to squeeze”)). Compare also French esquicher from Old Occitan esquichar (“to press, squeeze”). The slang expression "to put the squeeze on (someone or something)", meaning "to exert influence", is from 1711. The baseball term "squeeze play" is first recorded 1905. "Main squeeze" ("most important person") is attested from 1896, the specific meaning "one's sweetheart, lover" is attested by 1980.

The nonstandard strong forms squoze and squozen, attested dialectally since at least the mid-19th century, are by analogy with freeze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skwi?z/
• Rhymes: -i?z

Verb

squeeze (third-person singular simple present squeezes, present participle squeezing, simple past squeezed or (nonstandard) squoze, past participle squeezed or (nonstandard) squozen)

1. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.

   I squeezed the ball between my hands.

   Please don't squeeze the toothpaste tube in the middle.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1:

     "Over there—by the rock," Steele muttered, with his brush between his teeth, squeezing out raw sienna, and keeping his eyes fixed on Betty Flanders's back.

2. (transitive) To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.

   I managed to squeeze the car into that parking space.

   Can you squeeze through that gap?

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

     Could he not squeeze under the seat of a carriage? He had seen this method adopted by schoolboys, when the journey- money provided by thoughtful parents had been diverted to other and better ends.

4. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.

   He squeezed some money out of his wallet.

5. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.

   I'm being squeezed between my job and my volunteer work.

   • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

     At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.

6. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
7. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.

   Jones squeezed in Smith with a perfect bunt.

Synonyms

• (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once): compress, condense; see also Thesaurus:compress

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

squeeze (plural squeezes)

1. A close or tight fit.
2. (figuratively) A difficult position.

3. A hug or other affectionate grasp.

4. (slang) A romantic partner.
   • 1988, James Ellroy, Dudley Smith Trio: The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz, Random House (?ISBN), page 459:

     He spent nights cruising queer bars near the pad, saw Wiltsie at the dives, but always in the company of his squeeze, a guy he called 'Duane.'

   • 2012, J. Lamar, Tip Tap Toe, Xlibris Corporation (?ISBN), page 141:

     His young squeeze had just backed out and had not seen the assault on her “ sugar daddy” when it happened!

   • 2014, N. Lombardi Jr., Journey Towards a Falling Sun, John Hunt Publishing (?ISBN)

     But even considering that, he might have been a bit more restrained if he hadn't run into his former sexy squeeze, Penny Atieno.

5. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
6. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.

7. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
8. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
9. A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 65:

     Nollekens, finding his wife always benefited by these visits, never refused White a squeeze of a patera, or any thing that would answer his purpose; […] White […] had turned his wine-cellars into manufactories for the produce of cast coins, and moderns squeezes from Roman lamps.

10. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
11. (dated) The situation experienced by a middleman when pressured from both sides, especially financially.
12. (dated) A bribe, fee, or extortionary price paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe or fee.

Translations

See also

• squash
• squeegee
• squish
• margin squeeze

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.