Definitions for bonds

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IPA: /bɒnd/

Bonds is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in bonds (bdnos).

Definitions for bonds

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 the state of dutiable goods stored without payment of duties or taxes until withdrawn: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.

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 bonds

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

Examples for bonds

Instead, we have watched the bonds that hold Americans together become more frayed.

He could feel for those in the bonds of sin and despair, as bound with them.

I know some bonds can never be broken... He saved lives and he touched lives.

Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.

And this we must not say to each other even now, by all the bonds of mutual honor and self-respect.

"As Texans, the bonds we share transcend our differences," Abbott said.

Why not leave it and the goods on it to her and take the mortgages and bonds with him?

At sundown of the second day he began to complain of the irksomeness of his bonds.

The bonds of Phi Kappa Psi brotherhood were too strong to break.

And they resulted in the Fed sitting on a portfolio of bonds and other assets worth more than $4 trillion.