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Bond can be a noun or a verb.
bond used as a noun:
- 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 documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
"Many say that government and corporate bonds are a good investment to balance against a portfolio consisting primarily of stocks." - A physical connection which binds, a band; often plural.
"The prisoner was brought before the tribunal in iron bonds." - An emotional link, connection or union.
"They had grown up as friends and neighbors, and not even vastly differing political views could break the bond of their friendship." - A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
"Organic chemistry primarily consists of the study of carbon bonds, in their many variations." - A binding agreement, a covenant.
"Herbert resented his wife for subjecting him to the bonds of matrimony; he claimed they had gotten married while drunk." - A sum of money paid as bail or surety.
"The bailiff released the prisoner as soon as the bond was posted." - Any constraining or cementing force or material.
"A bond of superglue adhered the teacups to the ceiling, much to the consternation of the cafe owners." - In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying.
- In Scotland, a mortgage.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
bond used as a verb:
- To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
"The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage." - To cause to adhere (one material with another).
"The children bonded their snapshots to the scrapbook pages with mucilage." - To form a chemical compound with.
"Under unusual conditions, even gold can be made to bond with other elements." - To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
"The contractor was bonded with a local underwriter." - To form a friendship or emotional connection.
"The men had bonded while serving together in Vietnam." - To put in a bonded warehouse.
- To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
- To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
"A house's distribution panel should always be bonded to the grounding rods via a panel bond."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is bond?
- Noun usage: Many say that government and corporate bonds are a good investment to balance against a portfolio consisting primarily of stocks.
- Noun usage: The prisoner was brought before the tribunal in iron bonds.
- Noun usage: They had grown up as friends and neighbors, and not even vastly differing political views could break the bond of their friendship.
- Noun usage: Organic chemistry primarily consists of the study of carbon bonds, in their many variations.
- Noun usage: Herbert resented his wife for subjecting him to the bonds of matrimony; he claimed they had gotten married while drunk.
- Noun usage: The bailiff released the prisoner as soon as the bond was posted.
- Noun usage: A bond of superglue adhered the teacups to the ceiling, much to the consternation of the cafe owners.
- Verb usage: The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage.
- Verb usage: The children bonded their snapshots to the scrapbook pages with mucilage.
- Verb usage: Under unusual conditions, even gold can be made to bond with other elements.
- Verb usage: The contractor was bonded with a local underwriter.
- Verb usage: The men had bonded while serving together in Vietnam.
- Verb usage: A house's distribution panel should always be bonded to the grounding rods via a panel bond.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of bond are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of bond, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
