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Bond

noun
1.
An electrical force linking atoms.  Synonym: chemical bond.
2.
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.  Synonym: bond certificate.
3.
A connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest.  Synonym: alliance.  "Their friendship constitutes a powerful bond between them"
4.
(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.  Synonyms: bail, bail bond.  "A $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman"
5.
A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner).  Synonyms: hamper, shackle, trammel.
6.
A connection that fastens things together.  Synonym: attachment.
7.
A superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents.  Synonym: bond paper.
8.
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).  Synonym: Julian Bond.
9.
British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming.  Synonym: James Bond.
10.
The property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition.  Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness.  "A heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion"
verb
(past & past part. bonded; pres. part. bonding)
1.
Stick to firmly.  Synonyms: adhere, bind, hold fast, stick, stick to.
2.
Create social or emotional ties.  Synonyms: attach, bind, tie.
3.
Issue bonds on.
4.
Bring together in a common cause or emotion.  Synonyms: bring together, draw together.



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"Bond" Quotes from Famous Books



... was strikingly agreeable to look at, chiefly because of its frank, easy, good-natured expression. He was always scrupulously well-dressed, even in the vilest of weather; and there was just the faintest perceptible trace of Bond-street dandyism in his air, conveying at first an impression of slight mental weakness—an impression, however, which was rapidly dispelled upon a more intimate acquaintance. His manner was quiet and imperturbable to an astonishing degree; ...
— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood

... first time, we meet Giorgione in those studies of human nature which are commonly called "conversation pieces," or "concerts"—natural groups of generally three people knit together by some common bond, which is usually music in one form or another. It is not the idyll of the "Pastoral Symphony," but akin to it as an expression of some exquisite moment of thought or feeling, an ideal instant "in which, arrested thus, we seem to be spectators of all the fulness ...
— Giorgione • Herbert Cook

... unfettered, have definitely informed the Czar that if he should make war upon the Porte England would act as its ally. Public opinion in England, however, rendered this course impossible. The knife of Circassian and Bashi-Bazouk had severed the bond with Great Britain which had saved Turkey in 1854. Disraeli—henceforward Earl of Beaconsfield—could only utter grim anathemas against Servia for presuming to draw the sword upon its rightful lord and master, and chide those impatient English who, like the greater ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... resorted to with the Imperial League, a political organization called into being in the Cape Colony to stem Boer assertiveness there and to restrain Bond aspirations. It was also seriously mooted to obtain the good offices of Great Britain as an ...
— Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) - The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked • C. H. Thomas

... met together for worship in secret and before break of day, it is not to be supposed that their pastors deemed it expedient to undertake frequent journeys on the business of the Church, or assembled in multitudinous councils. But though, in the beginning of the second century, there was no formal bond of union connecting the several Christian communities throughout the world, they meanwhile contrived in various ways to cultivate an unbroken fraternal intercourse. Recognising each other as members of the same holy brotherhood, they maintained ...
— The Ancient Church - Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution • W.D. [William Dool] Killen


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