What is the meaning of binding?

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"