To form a friendship or emotional connection.
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 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.
Subject to the tenure called bondage.
In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.
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.
To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
From sense 1.3.1: something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden.
A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
A pill of a psychoactive drug.
A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
A chap, a fellow.
A similar device used as a game controller.
Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.
An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.
A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.
From sense 1.1: a bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people.