noun
verb
- Enroll into service compulsorily.
- usage: "The men were conscripted"
Conscript and Bind
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
- (n.) One taken by lot or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
- (a.) Enrolled; written; registered.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- Something that hinders as if with bonds.
verb
- Stick to firmly.
- usage: "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall"
- Create social or emotional ties.
- usage: "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
- Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope.
- usage: "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
- Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose.
- synonyms: 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"
- Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.
- usage: "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
- Provide with a binding.
- usage: "bind the books in leather"
- Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.
- usage: "They tied their victim to the chair"
- synonyms: tie
- Form a chemical bond with.
- usage: "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
- Cause to be constipated.
- usage: "These foods tend to constipate you"
- synonyms: constipate
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
- (v.t.) To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
- (v.t.) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
- (v.t.) To tie or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
- (v.i.) To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
- (n.) Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
- (v.t.) To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
- (v.t.) To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
- (n.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
- (v.t.) To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.
- (v.i.) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- (n.) That which binds or ties.
- (n.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
- (v.i.) To be restrained from motion or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
- (v.t.) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; especially under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
- (v.t.) Fig.: To oblige, restrain or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.
- (v.t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
- (v.t.) To confine, restrain or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth or the streams.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary