Bonded vs Paired - What's the difference?
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(bond)
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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(pair)
Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
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, title= Two people in a relationship, partnership (especially sexual) or friendship.
Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale tantum)
A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
(cards) A poker hand that contains of two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
(cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match
(baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play
(baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
(slang) A pair of breasts
(Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
(archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
* Charles Dickens
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair'', ''sliding pair'', ''twisting pair .
To group into sets of two.
* Alexander Pope
To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
(politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
* Rowe
(computing) to form wireless connection between to devices
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As verbs the difference between bonded and paired
is that bonded is past tense of bond while paired is past tense of pair.bonded
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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.
Derived terms
* bondability * bondablepaired
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*pair
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) paire, from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}
- There were two pairs on the final vote.
- plunging myself into poverty and shabbiness and love in one room up three pair of stairs
- Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards.
Synonyms
* two objects in a group: duo, dyad, couple, brace, twosome, duplet * (pair of breasts) See alsoDerived terms
* on a pair * grow a pair * in pairs * king pair * pair-horse * pair-oar(ed) * pair production * pair skating * royal pair * strap on a pairVerb
(en verb)- Glossy jet is paired with shining white.
- The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
- My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
- If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.
