Definition of Bond

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Bond

Bond

That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.

The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.

A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.

Moral or political duty or obligation.

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum.

An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.

A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence.

To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.

To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.

A vassal or serf; a slave.

In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.

League; association; confederacy.

Related Definitions:

Act, Added, Adjacent, Affinity, Alternately, Always, An, And, Anything, Appear, Appointed, Are, Arranged, As, Association, At, Attraction, Back, Band, Be, Before, Being, Benzene, Binding, Block, Bond, Bonded, Borrowing, Bound, Break, Building, But, By, Called, Captive, Captivity, Cause, Certain, Chain, Change, Chemical, Circuit, City, Combined, Come, Comes, Condition, Confederacy, Conform, Connecting, Copper, Cord, Corporation, Course, Cross, Dash, Day, Diagram, Different, Dispose, Do, Duties, Duty, Each, Electric, English, Every, Face, Fastened, Fellowship, Fifth, Fig, First, Flemish, For, Force, Forfeited, Forming, Formulae, From, Full, Future, Giving, Goods, Government, Graphic, Heavy, Himself, His, Has, If, In, Influence, Inner, Instrument, Is, It, Laid, League, Legal, Liable, Ligament, Line, Made, Manacle, May, Merchandise, Method, Middle, Moral, Mortgage, Money, Nature, Next, Not, Nucleus, Obligation, Obligor, Of, Often, On, One, Or, Ordinary, Other, Otherwise, Outer, Oxygen, Paid, Parallel, Part, Pay, Payment, Perform, Performed, Person, Place, Placed, Political, Position, Purpose, Railway, Remain, Restraint, Rod, Same, Seal, Second, Secure, See, Serf, Servitude, Several, Shackle, Shall, Short, Single, Slave, Slavery, So, Solidity, Specified, State, Stretcher, Sum, That, The, Their, This, Tie, Ties, Till, Time, To, Toward, Track, Two, Under, Union, Unit, Uniting, Used, Valence, Vassal, Void, Wall, Warehouse, When, Where, Which, Whole, Wire, With, Writing

Bond Quotations

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Kahlil Gibran

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Kahlil Gibran

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
William J. Clinton

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
Mike Myers

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.
Mike Myers

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams

I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.
Michael J. Fox

Bond Translations

bond in Dutch is binding, band
bond in French is sautiller
bond in German is Obligation
bond in Italian is saltellare
bond in Latin is vinculum
bond in Spanish is brincar

Quotes