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 —