One picture can be held for the whole word: something wound tightly round loose things so they stay together. Cut it and the pile falls apart. Sometimes the loose things are physical — pages, cloth edges, sticks of firewood. Sometimes they are not — a name and a piece of code, or two people and what they promised each other. The word always points at the thing doing the holding, not at what is held.
From the word’s history
The source entry gives: from Middle English byndynge, that is bind plus -ing. So the word is literally the -ing form of the verb bind, and it names either the act of tying or the thing that does the tying.
來源資料寫的是：來自中古英語 byndynge，等於 bind 加上 -ing。所以這個字字面上就是動詞 bind（綁）的 -ing 形，指「綁這件事」或「綁的那個東西」。今天的各種用法都還看得到這條線。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:716597266): "From Middle English byndynge; equivalent to bind + -ing."
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原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bindingadj/ˈbaɪndɪŋ/
- 1
Imposing stipulations or requirements that must be honoured.
- This contract is a legally binding agreement.
- A sworn statement (i.e., "made under oath)"is legally binding.
- 2
Having the effect of counteracting diarrhea.
- Bananas and white bread are sometimes considered binding.
bindingnoun/ˈbaɪndɪŋ/
- 1
An item (usually rope, tape, or string) used to hold two or more things together.
- 2
The spine of a book where the pages are held together.
- 3
businessmanufacturingsewingA finishing on a seam or hem of a garment.
- 4
computingengineeringmathematicsThe association of a named item with an element of a program.
- 5
computingengineeringmathematicsThe interface of a library with a programming language other than one it is written in.
- The Python binding is automatically generated.
- 6
chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe action or result of making two or more molecules stick together.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。