Definitions for Bond

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Bond bond

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IPA: /bɒnd/

Bond is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Bond (bdno).

Definitions for Bond

noun

1. something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
2. a cord, rope, band, or ligament.
3. something that binds a person or persons to a certain circumstance or line of behavior:
4. something, as an agreement or friendship, that unites individuals or peoples into a group; covenant:
5. binding security; firm assurance:
6. a sealed instrument under which a person, corporation, or government guarantees to pay a stated sum of money on or before a specified day.
7. any written obligation under seal.
8. Law. a written promise of a surety.
9. Government. the state of dutiable goods stored without payment of duties or taxes until withdrawn:
10. Also called bonded whiskey. a whiskey that has been aged at least four years in a bonded warehouse before bottling.
11. 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.
12. Insurance. a surety agreement. the money deposited, or the promissory arrangement entered into, under any such agreement.
13. a substance that causes particles to adhere; binder.
14. adhesion between two substances or objects, as concrete and reinforcing strands.
15. 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.
16. bond paper.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. Obsolete. bondsman1 .
20. a serf or slave.
21. Carrie (Minetta) (Carrie Jacobs-Bond) 1862–1946, U.S. songwriter and author.
22. Julian, born 1940, U.S. civil-rights leader and politician.

adjective

1. in serfdom or slavery.

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 Bond

1175-1225; Middle English (noun); variant of band³

Examples for Bond

Marriage is a bond and a commitment—marrying yourself is ridiculous because you are already married to yourself.

If he touched the hand of this man, there would be a bond between them which only death could break.

He was released within the hour without a bond on his own recognizance.

Yes, the original bond, as imagined by Ian Fleming, was obviously white.

The bond was delivered to Fox, who tore it up and flung the pieces into the fire.

It asks no other bond than his promise, no other evidence or attestation than his veracity.

He had not thought of God as the bond of life between him and them, nor sought to nourish the life in them.

The idea of black bond caused Limbaugh to exclaim on his show last week that bond was “white and Scottish, period.”

Failure to bond to their parents was the prominent reason children were being given away.

Religion was the law of the family, and the bond of delightful union.