Noun: bond bónd
- A connection based on kinship, marriage or common interest
"their friendship constitutes a powerful bond between them";
- alliance
- An electrical force linking atoms
"Chemical bonds hold molecules together";
- chemical bond
- 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
"The investor received a bond certificate for her $10,000 investment in corporate debt";
- bond certificate
- A connection that fastens things together
"The metal bond secured the shelf to the wall";
- attachment
- The property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
"the mutual bond of cells";
- adhesiveness, adhesion, adherence
- A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
"The prisoner's ankles were bound with iron bonds";
- shackle, hamper, trammel
- (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
"a $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman"; "the judge set bail bond at $10,000";
- bail, bail bond
- A superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents
"The law firm used high-quality bond paper for all their official correspondence";
- bond paper
- (construction) a specific pattern of bricklaying
"The mason used a Flemish bond pattern for the exterior wall"
- Create social or emotional ties
"The grandparents want to bond with the child";
- bind, tie, attach
- Bring together in a common cause or emotion
"As we faced the crisis, I felt our team bonded more strongly than ever before";
- draw together
- Remain stuck to; keep in place
"Will this wallpaper bond to the wall?";
- adhere, hold fast, bind, stick, stick to
- Issue bonds on
"The city bonded the new infrastructure project"
- (chemistry) to form a chemical bond with
"Hydrogen atoms bond with oxygen to form water molecules"
- 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)
- Julian Bond
- British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming
- James Bond
Derived forms: bonded, bonding, bonds
Type of: attach, attraction, attractive force, certificate, certificate of indebtedness, character, civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker, connectedness, connecter, connection, connective, connector, connexion [Brit], constraint, debt instrument, fictional character, fictitious character, mortgage, obligation, recognisance [Brit, Cdn], recognizance, relate, restraint, security, stickiness, unify, unite, writing paper
Encyclopedia: Bond, Martin