Accord vs Bond - What's the difference?
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Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
* 1769 ,
* Francis Bacon
A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
* 17th' ' century , "The Self-Subsistence of the Soul", ,
Agreement or harmony of things in general.
(legal) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
(international law) An international agreement.
(obsolete) Assent
Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
* Bible, Leviticus xxv. 5
(lb) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
*1590 , (Philip Sidney), (w, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia) , p.150:
*:[H]er hands accorded the Lutes musicke to the voice;
(lb) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
*, Book III:
*:But Satyrane forth stepping, did them stay / And with faire treatie pacifide their ire, / Then when they were accorded from the fray
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:all which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning
(lb) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
*1593 , (William Shakespeare), , III-i:
*:For things are often spoke and seldom meant; / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,—
*1671 , (John Milton), (Paradise Regained) , :
*:[T]hy actions to thy words accord ;
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
(lb) To agree in pitch and tone.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
*1951 , United Nations' , article 14:
*:In respect of the protection of industrial property,a refugee shall be accorded' in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is ' accorded to nationals of that country.
To give consent.
To arrive at an agreement.
Subject to the tenure called bondage.
In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.
(legal) 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.
(finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
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, title= A physical connection which binds, a band; often plural.
An emotional link, connection or union.
* Burke
Moral or political duty or obligation.
* Shakespeare
(chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
A binding agreement, a covenant.
A bail bond.
Any constraining or cementing force or material.
(construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying.
In Scotland, a mortgage.
To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
To cause to adhere (one material with another).
(chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.
To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
To form a friendship or emotional connection.
To put in a bonded warehouse.
(construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
(electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
To bail out by means of a bail bond.
* 1877 , Report No. 704 of proceedings In the Senate of the United States , 44th Congress, 2nd Session, page 642:
* 1995 , Herman Beavers, Wrestling angels into song: the fictions of Ernest J. Gaines , page 28:
* 2001 , Elaine J. Lawless, Women escaping violence: empowerment through narrative , page xxi:
As nouns the difference between accord and bond
is that accord is agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action while bond is .As a verb accord
is (lb) to make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.accord
English
Noun
(en noun)- These all continued with one accord in prayer.
- a mediator of an accord and peace between them
- Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
- the accord of light and shade in painting
- (Blackstone)
- The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
- Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord .
- That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
Synonyms
* (concurrence of opinion) consent, assent * (international agreement) treatyDerived terms
* of its own accord, of one's own accord * with one accordVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* accord with * accordance * according * accordingly * accordment * defence accord ----bond
English
(wikipedia bond)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- bond fear
Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) bond, variant of band, from (etyl) beand, .Noun
(en noun)ECB in record bond buying spree, passage=News of the big bond purchases came a day before the leaders of Germany and France meet to discuss the debt crisis.}}
The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}
- a people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind
- I love your majesty / According to my bond , nor more nor less.
Derived terms
* bail bond * bond paper * bond discount * bond for deed * bond for general purposes * bond issue * bond premium * bondage * bonded debt * bondsman * bearer bond * completion bond * corporate bond * covered bond * covalent bond * English bond * Flemish bond * government bond * ionic bond * junk bond * perpetual bond * performance bond * registered bond * serial bond * surety bond * war bond * zero coupon bondVerb
(en verb)- The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage.
- The children bonded their snapshots to the scrapbook pages with mucilage.
- Under unusual conditions, even gold can be made to bond with other elements.
- The contractor was bonded with a local underwriter.
- The men had bonded while serving together in Vietnam.
- A house's distribution panel should always be bonded to the grounding rods via a panel bond.
- In the August election of 1874 I bonded out of jail eighteen colored men that had been in there, and there has not one of them been tried yet, and they never will be.
- In jail for killing a man, Procter Lewis is placed in a cell where he is faced with a choice: he can be bonded out of jail by Roger Medlow, the owner of the plantation where he lives, or he can serve his time in the penitentiary.
- And no, you cannot drive her down to the bank to see if her new AFDC card is activated and drop her kids off at school for her because she didn't think to get her car before he bonded out of jail.