Bond vs Sacrifice - What's the difference?
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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.
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To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
* “Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.” - From the song Baby Don’t You Do It by Marvin Gaye
* “God sacrificed His only-begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16).
* Prior
* G. Eliot
To trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more such as an ally or business relationship or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
* (Ayn Rand), Atlas Shrugged
(chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
(baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
To destroy; to kill.
The offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.
* Milton
Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing.
Something sacrificed.
* Milton
(baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out in order that runners can advance around the bases.
A loss of profit.
(slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
As nouns the difference between bond and sacrifice
is that bond is while sacrifice is the offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.As a verb sacrifice is
to offer (something) as a gift to a deity.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
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- 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.
Derived terms
* bondability * bondablesacrifice
English
(wikipedia sacrifice)Verb
(sacrific)- Condemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.
- The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum making this boy his heir.
- If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice ; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.
- (Johnson)
Synonyms
* (sell without profit) sell at a lossDerived terms
* sacrificialNoun
(en noun)- Great pomp, and sacrifice , and praises loud, / To Dagon.
- the sacrifice of one's spare time in order to volunteer
- Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood / Of human sacrifice .
