Bail bond () A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ. |
Bail bond () Special bail in court to abide the judgment. |
Bond (n.) That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc. |
Bond (n.) The state of being bound |
Bond (n.) A binding force or influence |
Bond (n.) Moral or political duty or obligation. |
Bond (n.) A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void |
Bond (n.) An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money |
Bond (n.) The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid |
Bond (n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers |
Bond (n.) A unit of chemical attraction |
Bond (v. t.) To place under the conditions of a bond |
Bond (v. t.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity. |
Bond (n.) A vassal or serf |
Bond (a.) In a state of servitude or slavery |
Bond servant () A slave |
Bond service () The condition of a bond servant |
By-passage (n.) A passage different from the usual one |
Passage (v. i.) The act of passing |
Passage (v. i.) Transit by means of conveyance |
Passage (v. i.) Price paid for the liberty to pass |
Passage (v. i.) Removal from life |
Passage (v. i.) Way |
Passage (v. i.) A continuous course, process, or progress |
Passage (v. i.) A separate part of a course, process, or series |
Passage (v. i.) A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous |
Passage (v. i.) Reception |
Passage (v. i.) A pass or en encounter |
Passage (v. i.) A movement or an evacuation of the bowels. |
Passage (v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action |
Post-obit bond () A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. |
Transit (n.) The act of passing |
Transit (n.) The act or process of causing to pass |
Transit (n.) A line or route of passage or conveyance |
Transit (n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope. |
Transit (n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary. |
Transit (n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers |
Transit (v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body). |
bond trading bond-trading activity | trading in bonds (usually by a broker on the floor of an exchange) |
passage transition | the act of passing from one state or place to the next |
passage transit | a journey usually by ship, the outward passage tookdays |
passage handing over | the act of passing something to another person |
passage passing | a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another, the passage of air from the lungs, the passing of flatus |
rite of passage | a ritual performed in some cultures at times when an individual changes status (as from adolescence to adulthood) |
enactment passage | the passing of a law by a legislative body |
bird of passage | any bird that migrates seasonally |
air passage air duct airway | a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) |
attachment bond | a connection that fastens things together |
declinometer transit declinometer | an instrument for measuring magnetic declination |
passage | a way through or along which someone or something may pass |
public transit | a public transportation system for moving passengers |
rapid transit mass rapid transit | an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains |
shackle bond hamper trammel | a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) |
theodolite transit | a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod |
transit instrument | a telescope mounted on an axis running east and west and used to time the transit of a celestial body across the meridian |
transit line | a line providing public transit |
transportation system transportation transit | a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods |
adhesiveness adhesion adherence bond | the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition, the mutual adhesiveness of cells, a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion |
passage passageway | a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass, the nasal passages |
bond rating | an evaluation by a rating company of the probability that a particular bond issue will default, the bonds of highest quality are said to have bond ratings of AAA |
passage | a section of text, particularly a section of medium length |
purple passage | a passage full of ornate and flowery language |
bank identification number BIN ABA transit number | an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations, the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself |
passage musical passage | a short section of a musical composition |
passing passage | the motion of one object relative to another, stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets |
Northwest Passage | a water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America, Europeans since the th century had searched for a short route to the Far East before it was successfully traversed by Roald Amundsen (-) |
transit zone | a six million square mile area that includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific Ocean, includes the principal routes used by drug smugglers |
Inland Passage Inside Passage | a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska |
Windward Passage | a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea |
Bond James Bond | British secret operative in novels by Ian Fleming |
bond servant | someone bound to labor without wages |
wanderer roamer rover bird of passage | someone who leads a wandering unsettled life |
Bond Julian Bond | United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born ) |
chemical bond bond | an electrical force linking atoms |
covalent bond | a chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between atoms in a molecule |
hydrogen bond | a chemical bond consisting of a hydrogen atom between two electronegative atoms (e.g., oxygen or nitrogen) with one side be a covalent bond and the other being an ionic bond |
ionic bond electrovalent bond electrostatic bond | a chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains an electron to form a negative ion |
double bond | a covalent bond in which two pairs of electrons are shared between two atoms |
coordinate bond dative bond | a covalent bond in which both electrons are provided by one of the atoms |
metallic bond | a chemical bond in which electrons are shared over many nuclei and electronic conduction occurs |
peptide bond peptide linkage | the primary linkage of all protein structures, the chemical bond between the carboxyl groups and amino groups that unites a peptide |
bond issue | bonds sold by a corporation or government agency at a particular time and identifiable by date of maturity |
convertible bond | a bond that can be converted to other securities under certain conditions |
corporate bond | a bond issued by a corporation, carries no claim to ownership and pays no dividends but payments to bondholders have priority over payments to stockholders, a corporate bond is a safer investment than common stock in the same company |
coupon bond bearer bond | a bond issued with detachable coupons that must be presented to the issuer for interest payments |
government bond | a bond that is an IOU of the United States Treasury, considered the safest security in the investment world |
junk bond high-yield bond | a (speculative) bond with a credit rating of BB or lower, issued for leveraged buyouts and other takeovers by companies with questionable credit |
municipal bond | a bond issued by a state or local government |