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binding

the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book; "the book had a leather binding"

strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration

the capacity to attract and hold something

causing constipation

hindering freedom of movement; "tight garments are uncomfortably binding"

executed with proper legal authority; "a binding contract"

Synonyms:

• Smyth sewing,
• absolute,
• adhesive,
• affixation,
• annexation,
• attachment,
• authoritative,
• backing,
• bandage,
• bandaging,
• beading,
• bibliopegy,
• binder,
• binder board,
• bond,
• book cloth,
• book cover,
• book jacket,
• bookbinding,
• bookcase,
• bordering,
• bordure,
• canonical,
• case,
• casemaking,
• casing-in,
• clasping,
• cogent,
• collating,
• collating mark,
• combinative,
• communicating,
• compulsory,
• conclusive,
• conjunctive,
• connecting,
• connectional,
• connective,
• consistent,
• copulative,
• cover,
• de rigueur,
• decisive,
• decretory,
• dictated,
• didactic,
• dust cover,
• dust jacket,
• edging,
• entailed,
• envelope,
• envelopment,
• fastener,
• fastening,
• fimbria,
• fimbriation,
• final,
• flounce,
• folding,
• footband,
• formulary,
• frill,
• frilling,
• fringe,
• furbelow,
• galloon,
• gathering,
• gift wrapping,
• girding,
• gluing-off,
• good,
• hard and fast,
• hard binding,
• hard-and-fast,
• headband,
• hem,
• hooking,
• imperative,
• imperious,
• imposed,
• inevitable,
• instructive,
• intercommunicating,
• involuntary,
• irrevocable,
• jacket,
• joining,
• just,
• knot,
• lashing,
• lawful,
• legal,
• legitimate,
• library binding,
• ligation,
• lining,
• lining-up,
• linking,
• list,
• logical,
• mandated,
• mandatory,
• mechanical binding,
• meeting,
• motif,
• must,
• necessary,
• niggerhead,
• obligatory,
• official,
• peremptory,
• perfect binding,
• plastic binding,
• preceptive,
• prescribed,
• prescript,
• prescriptive,
• regulation,
• required,
• rounding,
• rubric,
• ruffle,
• saddle stitching,
• self-consistent,
• selvage,
• sewing,
• side sewing,
• signature,
• skirting,
• slipcase,
• slipcover,
• smashing,
• soft binding,
• solid,
• sound,
• spiral binding,
• splice,
• stamping,
• standard,
• stapling,
• statutory,
• sticking,
• substantial,
• sufficient,
• tailband,
• tieing,
• tipping,
• trimming,
• ultimate,
• valance,
• valid,
• weighty,
• well-founded,
• well-grounded,
• welt,
• wire stitching,
• without appeal,
• wrap,
• wrapper,
• wrapping,
• zipping