bond vs part

bond

noun
  • Moral or political duty or obligation. 

  • An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie. 

  • A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule. 

  • Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds. 

  • A physical connection which binds, a band. 

  • A peasant; churl. 

  • A binding agreement, a covenant. 

  • A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond. 

  • In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength. 

  • A bail bond. 

  • A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture. 

  • A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior. 

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

  • Any constraining or cementing force or material. 

  • A mortgage. 

verb
  • To cause to adhere (one material with another). 

  • To guarantee or secure a financial risk. 

  • To lay bricks in a specific pattern. 

  • To bail out by means of a bail bond. 

  • To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors). 

  • To form a friendship or emotional connection. 

  • To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind. 

  • To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid. 

  • To form a chemical compound with. 

adj
  • Subject to the tenure called bondage. 

  • In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free. 

  • Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave. 

part

noun
  • Duty; responsibility. 

  • A unit of relative proportion in a mixture. 

  • The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece. 

  • Share, especially of a profit. 

  • A section of a document. 

  • Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand". 

  • A group inside a larger group. 

  • In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds. 

  • The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. 

  • A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense. 

  • A fraction of a whole. 

  • Position or role (especially in a play). 

  • A distinct element of something larger. 

  • 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink. 

  • A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region. 

  • A room in a public building, especially a courtroom. 

adj
  • Fractional; partial. 

verb
  • To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion. 

  • To leave (an IRC channel). 

  • To cut hair with a parting; shed. 

  • To leave the company of. 

  • To divide in two. 

  • To be divided in two or separated; shed. 

  • To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. 

adv
  • Partly; partially; fractionally. 

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