The tattered old book is valuable and we need to rebind it.
Examples of rebind
rebind
The final stage is conversion of 11-cis-retinal will rebind to opsin to reform rhodopsin in the retina.
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ReBiND aims to enable users with a minimum of technical background knowledge to transform and archive their biodiversity data.
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Each motor can unbind from and rebind to the filament, which implies that the number of motors that actually pull the cargo varies with time.
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Provide with a new binding; "The tattered old book is valuable and we need to rebind it"
To bind again
(rebinding) The process of associating a file with a backed-up file with a new management class name. For example, rebinding occurs when the management class associated with a file is deleted. See binding.
A style of binding that removes the old cover and original binding. The text block can be rebound either by adhesive binding or sewing.
The existing binding is removed, fan glued and cased into a new cover.