Bonded vs Bound - What's the difference?

bonded | bound |

As verbs the difference between bonded and bound

is that bonded is past tense of bond while bound is past tense of bind.

As an adjective bound is

obliged (to).

As a noun bound is

a boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.

bonded

English

Verb

(head)

(bond)

Anagrams

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

bound

English

Alternative forms

* bownd (archaic)

Etymology 1

See bind

Verb

(head)

(bind)

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound , on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}

''I bound the splint to my leg.

''I had bound the splint with duct tape.

Adjective

(-)

(with infinitive) Obliged (to).

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=5 citation , passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.}}

(with infinitive) Very likely (to).

* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

(linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.

(mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.

(dated) constipated; costive

Antonyms

* free

Derived terms

* bound to * I'll be bound

Etymology 2

From (etyl) bounde, from (etyl) bunne, from

Noun

(en noun)

(often, used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.

I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.

Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.

(mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values

Derived terms

* boundary * boundless * harmonic bounding * least upper bound * lower bound * metes and bounds * out of bounds * upper bound * within bounds

Verb

(en verb)

To surround a territory or other geographical entity.

''France, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra bound Spain.

''Kansas is bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south and Colorado on the west.

(mathematics) To be the boundary of.

Derived terms

* unbound * unbounded

Etymology 3

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A sizeable jump, great leap.

''The deer crossed the stream in a single bound .

A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.

(dated) A bounce; a rebound.

the bound of a ball

(Johnson)

Derived terms

* by leaps and bounds

Verb

(en verb)

To leap, move by jumping.

''The rabbit bounded down the lane.

To cause to leap.

to bound a horse

(Shakespeare)

(dated) To rebound; to bounce.

a rubber ball bounds on the floor

(dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.

to bound a ball on the floor

Derived terms

* rebound

Etymology 4

Alteration of boun , with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1, above.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) ready, prepared.

ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

''Which way are you bound ?

''Is that message bound for me?

Derived terms

* -bound * bound for

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