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.
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(finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
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A physical connection which binds, a band; often plural.
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An emotional link, connection or union.
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Moral or political duty or obligation.
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(chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
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A binding agreement, a covenant.
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A bail bond.
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Any constraining or cementing force or material.
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(construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying.
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In Scotland, a mortgage.
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(railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
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A peasant; churl.
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A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
Bondverb
(transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
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(transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
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To form a chemical compound with.
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(transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
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To form a friendship or emotional connection.
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(transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse.
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To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
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To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
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To bail out by means of a bail bond.
Bondadjective
Subject to the tenure called bondage.
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In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
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Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.
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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.
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The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.
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A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.
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Moral or political duty or obligation.
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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.
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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.
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The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.
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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.
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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.
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A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
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League; association; confederacy.
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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.
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To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.
Bondadjective
In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.
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an electrical force linking atoms
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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
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a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest;
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(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial;
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a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
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a connection that fastens things together
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a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents
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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)
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British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming
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the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
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stick to firmly;
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create social or emotional ties;
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issue bonds on
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bring together in a common cause or emotion;
Bondadjective
held in slavery;
Bundnoun
A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
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A group of foreign sympathesizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
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A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
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(India) A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
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(India) bandh
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To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
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League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
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An embankment against inundation.