bond

Meaning

1. A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
2. A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
3. A physical connection which binds, a band.
4. An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
5. Moral or political duty or obligation.
6. A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
7. A binding agreement, a covenant.
8. The state of being stored in a bonded warehouse
9. A bail bond.
10. Bond paper.
11. Any constraining or cementing force or material.
12. In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
13. To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
14. To cause to adhere (one material with another).
15. To form a chemical compound with.
16. To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
17. To form a friendship or emotional connection.
18. To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
19. To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
20. To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
21. To bail out by means of a bail bond.
22. A peasant; churl.
23. A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
24. Subject to the tenure called bondage.
25. In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
26. Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.
27. A surname originating as an occupation.
28. A unisex given name from Old Norse.
29. An unincorporated community in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.
30. A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Stone County, Mississippi, United States.
31. An unincorporated community in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States.

Etymology / origin

From Middle English bond, a variant of band, from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *bandaz, *bandiz (“band, fetter”). Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Swedish band. Doublet of Bund. Related to bind.

Related words

Descendant words

• bondi(Finnish) (bor)
• ボンド(Japanese) (bor)
• 본드(Korean) (bor)
• bon(Malay) (bor)
• band(Norwegian Nynorsk) (cog)
• bonde(Norwegian Nynorsk) (cog)
• bonde(Portuguese) (bor)
• бонд(Ukrainian) (bor)

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