Bail vs. Bond

Bailnoun

Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

Bailnoun

Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.

Bailnoun

The person providing such payment.

Bailnoun

A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.

Bailnoun

A person who bails water out of a boat.

Bailnoun

(obsolete) Custody; keeping.

Bailnoun

A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).

Bailnoun

A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).

Bailnoun

A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.

Bailnoun

A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.

Bailnoun

A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.

Bailnoun

(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.

Bailnoun

(furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.

Bailverb

To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

Bailverb

(legal) To release a person under such guarantee.

Bailverb

(legal) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.

Bailverb

To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.

Bailverb

To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.

Bailverb

To set free; to deliver; to release.

Bailverb

(slang) To exit quickly.

Bailverb

(informal) To fail to meet a commitment.

Bailverb

To secure the head of a cow during milking.

Bailverb

(rare) To confine.

Bailverb

To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.

Bailverb

To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with up.)

Bailnoun

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

Bailnoun

Custody; keeping.

Bailnoun

The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surety for his appearance in court.

Bailnoun

The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.

Bailnoun

The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.

Bailnoun

A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.

Bailnoun

A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.

Bailnoun

The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.

Bailnoun

A certain limit within a forest.

Bailnoun

A division for the stalls of an open stable.

Bailnoun

The top or cross piece (or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.

Bailverb

To lade; to dip and throw; - usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.

Bailverb

To dip or lade water from; - often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.

Bailverb

To deliver; to release.

Bailverb

To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.

Bailverb

To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.

Bailnoun

(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial;

Bailnoun

the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial);

Bailverb

release after a security has been paid

Bailverb

deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period

Bailverb

secure the release of (someone) by providing security

Bailverb

empty (a vessel) by bailing

Bailverb

remove (water) from a vessel with a container

Bailnoun

the temporary release of an accused person awaiting trial, sometimes on condition that a sum of money is lodged to guarantee their appearance in court

Bailnoun

money paid by or for someone in order to secure their release on bail

Bailnoun

either of the two crosspieces bridging the stumps, which the bowler and fielders try to dislodge with the ball to get the batsman out

Bailnoun

a bar on a typewriter or computer printer which holds the paper steady.

Bailnoun

a fastening that secures a crampon to the sole of a boot.

Bailnoun

a bar or pole separating horses in an open stable.

Bailnoun

a movable framework for securing the head of a cow during milking.

Bailverb

release or secure the release of (a prisoner) on payment of bail

Bailverb

confront (someone) with the intention of robbing them

Bailverb

detain (someone) in conversation, especially against their will

Bailverb

secure (a cow) during milking.

Bailverb

scoop water out of (a ship or boat)

Bailverb

scoop (water) out of a ship or boat

Bailverb

abandon a commitment, obligation, or activity

Bail

Bail is a set of pre-trial restrictions that are imposed on a suspect to ensure that they will not hamper the judicial process. Bail is the conditional release of a defendant with the promise to appear in court when required.

Bondnoun

(legal) Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.

Bondnoun

(finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.

Bondnoun

A physical connection which binds, a band; often plural.

Bondnoun

An emotional link, connection or union.

Bondnoun

Moral or political duty or obligation.

Bondnoun

(chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.

Bondnoun

A binding agreement, a covenant.

Bondnoun

A bail bond.

Bondnoun

Any constraining or cementing force or material.

Bondnoun

(construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying.

Bondnoun

In Scotland, a mortgage.

Bondnoun

(railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.

Bondnoun

A peasant; churl.

Bondnoun

A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.

Bondverb

(transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.

Bondverb

(transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).

Bondverb

To form a chemical compound with.

Bondverb

(transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.

Bondverb

To form a friendship or emotional connection.

Bondverb

(transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse.

Bondverb

To lay bricks in a specific pattern.

Bondverb

To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).

Bondverb

To bail out by means of a bail bond.

Bondadjective

Subject to the tenure called bondage.

Bondadjective

In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.

Bondadjective

Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.

Bondnoun

That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.

Bondnoun

The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.

Bondnoun

A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.

Bondnoun

Moral or political duty or obligation.

Bondnoun

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum.

Bondnoun

A financial instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; a written promise to pay a specific sum of money on or before a specified day, given in return for a sum of money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

Bondnoun

The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

Bondnoun

The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English bond or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.

Bondnoun

A unit of chemical attraction between atoms; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. Also called chemical bond. It is often represented in graphic formulæ by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence. Several types of bond are distinguished by chemists, as double bond, triple bond, covalent bond, hydrogen bond.

Bondnoun

A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.

Bondnoun

League; association; confederacy.

Bondnoun

A vassal or serf; a slave.

Bondverb

To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.

Bondverb

To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.

Bondadjective

In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

Bondnoun

an electrical force linking atoms

Bondnoun

a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal

Bondnoun

a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest;

Bondnoun

(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial;

Bondnoun

a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

Bondnoun

a connection that fastens things together

Bondnoun

a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents

Bondnoun

United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)

Bondnoun

British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming

Bondnoun

the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

Bondverb

stick to firmly;

Bondverb

create social or emotional ties;

Bondverb

issue bonds on

Bondverb

bring together in a common cause or emotion;

Bondadjective

held in slavery;