Chapter and Binding

noun

• A subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled.
  • usage: "he read a chapter every night before falling asleep"
• Any distinct period in history or in a person's life.
  • usage: "the industrial revolution opened a new chapter in British history"; "the divorce was an ugly chapter in their relationship"
• A local branch of some fraternity or association.
  • usage: "he joined the Atlanta chapter"
• An ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church.
• A series of related events forming an episode.
  • usage: "a chapter of disasters"

• (n.) A location or compartment.
• (n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
• (n.) A chapter house.
• (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
• (n.) A business meeting of any religious community.
• (n.) An assembly of monks or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
• (v.t.) To divide into chapters, as a book.
• (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
• (n.) A community of canons or canonesses.
• (n.) A bishop's council.
• (v.t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
• (n.) A decretal epistle.

Chapter is the Bankruptcy Code is organized into Chapters. Except for Chapter 12, the Chapters of the present code are all odd-numbered and are enumerated with Arabic numerals. (Before the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, the Chapters were numbered with Roman numerals.) Chapters 1, 3, and 5 cover matters of general application. Chapters 7, 9, 11, 12 and 13 concern, respectively: liquidation (business or non-business); municipality bankruptcy; business reorganization; family farm debt adjustment; and wage-earner or personal (i. E. Non-business) reorganization.

noun

• The capacity to attract and hold something.
• Strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration.
• The act of applying a bandage.
  • synonyms: dressing, bandaging
• 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.
  • synonyms: ski binding
• The protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book.
  • usage: "the book had a leather binding"
  • synonyms: book binding, cover, back

verb

• Stick to firmly.
  • usage: "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall"
  • synonyms: adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to
• Create social or emotional ties.
  • usage: "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
  • synonyms: bind, tie, attach, bond
• Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope.
  • usage: "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
  • synonyms: bind
• Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose.
  • synonyms: bind, bandage
• Secure with or as if with ropes.
  • usage: "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"
  • synonyms: tie down, tie up, bind, truss
• Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.
  • usage: "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
  • synonyms: oblige, bind, hold, obligate
• Provide with a binding.
  • usage: "bind the books in leather"
  • synonyms: bind
• Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.
  • usage: "They tied their victim to the chair"
  • synonyms: tie, bind
• Form a chemical bond with.
  • usage: "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
  • synonyms: bind
• Cause to be constipated.
  • usage: "These foods tend to constipate you"
  • synonyms: constipate, bind

adjective

• Executed with proper legal authority.
  • usage: "a binding contract"

• (n.) The act or process of one who or that which, binds.
• (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
• (a.) That binds; obligatory.
• (n.) Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Bind.

(DoD, NATO) The fastening or securing of items to a movable platform called a pallet. See also palletized unit load.