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IPA: /ˈbɒn dɪŋ/

Bonding is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in bonding (bdginno).

Definitions for bonding

noun

1. Psychology, Animal Behavior. a relationship that usually begins at the time of birth between a parent and offspring and that establishes the basis for an ongoing mutual attachment. the establishment of a pair bond.
2. a close friendship that develops between adults, often as a result of intense experiences, as those shared in military combat.
3. Dentistry. a technique or procedure for restoring the discolored or damaged surface of a tooth by coating it with a highly durable resinous material that adheres to the existing enamel.
4. something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
5. a cord, rope, band, or ligament.
6. something that binds a person or persons to a certain circumstance or line of behavior:
7. something, as an agreement or friendship, that unites individuals or peoples into a group; covenant:
8. binding security; firm assurance:
9. a sealed instrument under which a person, corporation, or government guarantees to pay a stated sum of money on or before a specified day.
10. any written obligation under seal.
11. Law. a written promise of a surety.
12. Government. the state of dutiable goods stored without payment of duties or taxes until withdrawn:
13. Also called bonded whiskey. a whiskey that has been aged at least four years in a bonded warehouse before bottling.
14. Finance. a certificate of ownership of a specified portion of a debt due to be paid by a government or corporation to an individual holder and usually bearing a fixed rate of interest.
15. Insurance. a surety agreement. the money deposited, or the promissory arrangement entered into, under any such agreement.
16. a substance that causes particles to adhere; binder.
17. adhesion between two substances or objects, as concrete and reinforcing strands.
18. Also called chemical bond. Chemistry. the attraction between atoms in a molecule or crystalline structure. Compare coordinate bond, covalent bond, hydrogen bond, ionic bond, metallic bond.
19. bond paper.
20. Masonry. any of various arrangements of bricks, stones, etc., having a regular pattern and intended to increase the strength or enhance the appearance of a construction. the overlap of bricks, stones, etc., in a construction so as to increase its strength.
21. Electricity. an electric conductor placed between adjacent metal parts within a structure, as in a railroad track, aircraft, or house, to prevent the accumulation of static electricity.
22. Obsolete. bondsman1 .

verb (used with object)

1. to put (goods, an employee, official, etc.) on or under bond:
2. to connect or bind.
3. Finance. to place a bonded debt on or secure a debt by bonds; mortgage.
4. to join (two materials).
5. Masonry. to lay (bricks, stones, etc.) so as to produce a strong construction.
6. Electricity. to provide with a bond:
7. to establish a close emotional relationship to or with (another):

verb (used without object)

1. to hold together or cohere, from or as from being bonded, as bricks in a wall or particles in a mass.
2. Psychology, Animal Behavior. to establish a bonding.

Origin of bonding

1670-80, for earlier sense; bond¹ + -ing¹

Examples for bonding

And if a family is bonding in 2015, it probably involves Game of Thrones or Modern Family.

bonding and entrepot facilities, on a scale commensurate with local needs, now satisfy trade requirements.

The consequence is what we perceive as lack of family continuity and bonding.

Subsequently the bonding and not the free port system was adopted in the United Kingdom.

Did you and McConaughey have any sort of bonding ritual before shooting?

The way we share technology can even be a way of bonding or showing trust for each other.

It was really a bonding collective that MTV was the glue for.

When fathers hold and play with their children, oxytocin and prolactin kick in, priming them for bonding.

The object of bonding will be understood by reference to fig. 4.

Vows are exchanged more as a matter of performance than of bonding.