a device on a ski
that holds the heel and toe of your boot in place and releases the boot
automatically if you fall ( — picture
o skiing
'binding
theory noun o government
and binding
THEORY
bind-weed /'baindwiid/ noun [u] a wild plant that twists itself around other plants 'bin-end noun {pi. 'bin-ends) {BrE) a bottle of wine which has its price reduced because
all the other bottles of the same wine have been sold ( f! ) IWJftfch’lX
binge /bmd3/ noun, verb
m noun {informal) a
short period of time when sb does too much of a particular activity, especially
eating or drinking alcohol ( to
go on a binge 0 One of the symptoms is binge
eating.
* verb (binge-ing or bin ging, binged, binged) [v] ~ (on sth) to eat or drink too much,
especially without being able to control yourself fz jz Hi; £E K # ^ $ When
she’s depressed she binges on chocolate, ftfpl/ti(ftN/^ffc^
bingo /'birjgau; NAmE -gou/ noun, exclamation ®noun [U] a
game in which each player has a card with numbers on. Numbers are called out in
no particular order and the first player whose numbers are all called out, or
who has a line of numbers called out, wins a prize.
mm) ■. toPiay
bingo %m% 0 a bingo hall 'MXWt&lf
*> exclamation used to express pleasure and/or surprise because you
have found sth that you were looking for, or done sth that you were trying to
do ( l^ff #RM Mi# )
, ttt;: The computer program searches, and bingo!
We’ve got a match. Hi
'bin
liner noun (BrE) a
plastic bag that is placed inside a container for holding waste
bin-man /'binmaen/ noun {pi. -men /-men/)
{BrE, informal) = dustman
bin-ocu-lar /bi'nt)kj0la(r); NAmE bi'ncnkjalar/ adj. {technical ^if) using two eyes to see K g # W; KB1I (ft: binocular vision
telescope
bin-ocu-lars
/bi'nnkjalaz;
NAmE bi'naikjalarz/
(also 'field glasses) noun [pi.] an instrument, like two small telescopes fixed together, that makes
objects that are far away seem nearer when you look through it KM HI gelt: a pair of binoculars — gij KM M0 We looked at the birds through
binoculars. bi-no-mial /bai'naumial; NAmE -'nou-/ noun 1 (mathematics W) an expression that has two groups of numbers or
letters, joined by the sign 4- or - H ^
2 {linguistics ig-W) a pair of nouns joined by a word like
‘and’, where the order of the nouns is always the same, for example ‘knife and
fork’ ( hi and 3/&S(ft —