the act of tying together a function to some
        arguments for deferred (lazy) evaluation. Named <a class="link" href="function.html" title="Function">lazy
        functions</a> require a bit of typing. Unlike (unnamed) lambda expressions,
        we need to write a functor somewhere offline, detached from the call site.
        If you wish to transform a plain function, member function or member variable
        to a lambda expression, <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">bind</span></