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Bond is a related term of stand.


As nouns the difference between bond and stand

is that bond is while stand is stall, booth, bench, stand (place to sell items or make deals).

bond

English

(wikipedia bond)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A peasant; churl.
  • A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Subject to the tenure called bondage.
  • In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
  • Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.
  • bond fear
    Derived terms
    * * * * * * * * * * *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bond, variant of band, from (etyl) beand, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=August 16, author=AP, work=The Sydney Morning Herald
  • , title= 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.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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 physical connection which binds, a band; often plural.
  • An emotional link, connection or union.
  • * Burke
  • a people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind
  • Moral or political duty or obligation.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I love your majesty / According to my bond , nor more nor less.
  • (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.
  • 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 bond

    Verb

    (en 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.
  • (chemistry) 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.
  • (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).
  • A house's distribution panel should always be bonded to the grounding rods via a panel bond.
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • * 1995 , Herman Beavers, Wrestling angels into song: the fictions of Ernest J. Gaines , page 28:
  • 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.
  • * 2001 , Elaine J. Lawless, Women escaping violence: empowerment through narrative , page xxi:
  • 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 * bondable

    stand

    English

    Verb

  • (lb) To or be positioned physically.
  • #(lb) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
  • #:
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,
  • #(lb) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
  • #:
  • # To remain motionless.
  • #:
  • #*Bible, (w) ii, 9
  • #*:The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
  • #*, chapter=23
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
  • #*
  • #*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • #(lb) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
  • #*
  • #*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
  • #*
  • #*:He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom.
  • #(lb) To place in an upright or standing position.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To occupy or hold a place; to be situated or located.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To measure when erect on the feet.
  • #* (1809-1892)
  • #*:Six feet two, as I think, he stands .
  • (lb) To or be positioned mentally.
  • # To be positioned to gain or lose.
  • #:
  • # To tolerate.
  • #:
  • #*, chapter=7
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand' that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't ' stand is to have them togs called a livery.
  • #(lb) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
  • #*Spectator
  • #*:readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall
  • #(lb) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
  • #*Bible, (w) viii. 11
  • #*:The king granted the Jewsto gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
  • #*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
  • #*:the standing pattern of their imitation
  • # To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
  • #*Bible, (w) ix. 10
  • #*:sacrificeswhich stood only in meats and drinks
  • #*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • #*:Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
  • #*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • #*:Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.
  • (lb) To or be positioned socially.
  • # To act as an umpire.
  • #(lb) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
  • #:
  • #*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • #*:Love stood the siege.
  • #*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • #*:Bid him disband his legions,/ And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
  • #*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • #*:He stood the furious foe.
  • # To seek election.
  • #:
  • #*(Izaak Walton) (c.1594-1683)
  • #*:He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
  • #(lb) To be valid.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
  • #*1957 , (Matt Christopher), Basketball Sparkplug , Ch.7:
  • #*:"Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. ¶ "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.
  • #* R. J. Childerhose, Hockey Fever in Goganne Falls , p.95:
  • #*:The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys."
  • #*1978 , (Louis Sachar), Sideways Stories from Wayside School , Ch.21:
  • #*:"Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play."¶ "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.
  • #To cover the expense of; to pay for.
  • #:
  • #:(Thackeray)
  • #(lb) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
  • #*(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)
  • #*:Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing / But what may stand with honour.
  • #(lb) To appear in court.
  • #:(Burrill)
  • Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
  • *1630 , John Smith, True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p.40:
  • *:To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta.
  • (lb) To remain without ruin or injury.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:My mind on its own centre stands unmoved.
  • *(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
  • *:The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.
  • (lb) To stop asking for more cards.
  • Usage notes

    * In older works, standen is found as a past participle of this verb; it is now archaic. * (tolerate) This is almost always found in a negative form such as can’t stand', or ' No-one can stand… In this sense it is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (term) or infinitive . See .

    Derived terms

    * bestand * offstand * a leg to stand on * stand alone/stand-alone * stand aside * stand and deliver * stand back * stand by * stand corrected * stand down * stand easy * stand firm * stand for * stand from under * stand guard * stand off/stand-off * stand on * stand on ceremony * stand out * stand over * stand-in * stand in for * * stand on end * * stand pat * stand still * stand tall * stand to reason * stand watch * stand up/stand-up/standup * understand * upstand

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of standing.
  • *Spectator
  • *:I took my stand upon an eminenceto look into their several ladings.
  • A defensive position or effort. (rfex)
  • A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
  • :
  • A period of performance in a given location or venue.
  • :
  • A device to hold something upright or aloft.
  • :
  • *
  • *:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand , and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
  • :
  • A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
  • :
  • (lb) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
  • A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
  • *1625 , (Francis Bacon), “Of Truth”, Essays
  • *:One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand , to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie’s sake.
  • *1819 , (Lord Byron), , I.168:
  • *:Antonia's patience now was at a stand — / "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there," / She whispered
  • A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
  • A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
  • :(ux)
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.
  • The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
  • :
  • (lb) grandstand (often in plural)
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 11, author=Rory Houston, work=RTE Sport
  • , title= Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland , passage=The end of the opening period was relatively quite [sic] as Vassiljev's desperate shot from well outside the penalty area flew into the stand housing the Irish supporters and then Ward's ctoss [sic] was gathered by goalkeeper Pareiko.}}
  • (lb) A partnership.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 21, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= England v West Indies: Hosts cruise home in Lord's Test , passage=England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge.}}
  • A single set, as of arms.
  • *1927 , Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld , Paragon House (1990), ISBN 1-55778-348-9, p.170:
  • *:The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.
  • (lb) Rank; post; station; standing.
  • *(Samuel Daniel) (1562-1619)
  • *:Father, since your fortune did attain / So high a stand , I mean not to descend.
  • (lb) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
  • :
  • A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
  • (lb) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the noun "stand") * at a stand * bandstand * bicycle stand * blow this pop stand * clamp stand * coat stand * concessions stand * cruet stand * dish stand * grandstand * home stand * kickstand * music stand * one-night stand * outstanding * retort stand * ring stand * Sheffield stand * stable stand * standout * standpoint * standstill * take a firm stand * take a stand * take the stand * taxi stand * track stand * umbrella stand * upstanding * witness stand

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