bond vs tie

bond

noun
  • 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. 

  • Moral or political duty or obligation. 

  • 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. 

tie

noun
  • A strong connection between people or groups of people. 

  • A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened. 

  • A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails. 

  • A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie. 

  • A structural member firmly holding two pieces together. 

  • A tiewig. 

  • The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally. 

  • A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes. 

  • A meeting between two players or teams in a competition. 

  • The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw). 

  • A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig. 

  • A knot; a fastening. 

  • A lace-up shoe. 

  • A connection between two vertices. 

  • One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set. 

  • A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/. 

  • A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site. 

  • An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s). 

verb
  • To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering. 

  • To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation. 

  • To secure (something) by string or the like. 

  • To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely. 

  • In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead. 

  • To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like. 

  • To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering. 

  • To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like. 

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