Bond vs. Collocation
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.
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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)
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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)
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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;
Collocationnoun
(uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
Collocationnoun
(countable) Such a specific grouping.
Collocationnoun
A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
Collocationnoun
(mathematics) A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x) = y_{0}(x) + \sum_{l=0}^{q}\alpha_{l} y_{l}(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
Collocationnoun
(computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.
Collocationnoun
The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
Collocationnoun
a combination of related words within a sentence that occurs more frequently than would be predicted in a random arrangement of words; a combination of words that occurs with sufficient frequency to be recongizable as a common combination, especially a pair of words that occur adjacent to each other. Also called stable collocation. Combinations of words having intervening words between them, such as verb and object pairs, may also be collocations.
Collocationnoun
a grouping of words in a sentence
Collocationnoun
the act of positioning close together (or side by side);
Collocation
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme, meaning that it can be understood from the words that make it up.
