OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 16964

bond

/bɒnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
buena voluntad • garantía
A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
lazo
An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
1792, Edmund Burke, a letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland a people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind.
They had grown up as friends and neighbors, and not even vastly differing political views could break the bond of their friendship.
enlace
A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
Organic chemistry primarily consists of the study of carbon bonds, in their many variations.
lazo • vínculo
A binding agreement, a covenant.
Herbert resented his wife for subjecting him to the bonds of matrimony; he claimed they had gotten married while drunk.
You could rely on him. His word was his bond.
aparejo
In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 16965

bond

/bɒnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pegar
To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage.