different between bricklaying vs bond

English

Etymology

brick +? laying

Noun

bricklaying (countable and uncountable, plural bricklayings)

1. The act of building a wall by laying bricks, usually with cement between the surfaces of the bricks.
   • 1912, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Mother Carey (page 127)

     Mr. Popham never worked at his bricklayings or carpentering or cabinet making or papering by the hour, but “by the job”; and a kind Providence, intent on the welfare of the community, must have guided him in this choice of business methods, […]

See also

• bricklayer

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?nd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English bond, a variant of band, from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *bandaz, *bandiz (“band, fetter”). Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Swedish band. Doublet of Bund. Related to bind.

Noun

bond (plural bonds)

1. (law) 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.
2. (finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.

3. 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.
4. (often in the plural) A physical connection which binds, a band.

5. 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.
6. Moral or political duty or obligation.
7. (chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.

8. A binding agreement, a covenant.

9. A bail bond.

10. Any constraining or cementing force or material.

11. (construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying.
12. In Scotland, a mortgage.
13. (railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bond (third-person singular simple present bonds, present participle bonding, simple past and past participle bonded)

1. (transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.

2. (transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).

3. (transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.

4. (transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.

5. To form a friendship or emotional connection.

6. (transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
7. (transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
8. (transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).

9. 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.

Synonyms

• (to cause to adhere): cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere

Derived terms

• bondability
• bondable

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bonde (“peasant, servant, bondman”), from Old English b?nda, b?nda (“householder, freeman, plebeian, husband”), perhaps from Old Norse bóndi (“husbandman, householder”, literally “dweller”), or a contraction of Old English b?end (“dweller, inhabitant”), both from Proto-Germanic *b?wandz (“dweller”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to swell, grow”). See also bower, boor.

Noun

bond (plural bonds)

1. A peasant; churl.
2. A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.

Adjective

bond (comparative more bond, superlative most bond)

1. Subject to the tenure called bondage.
2. In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
3. Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.

Derived terms

• Bond
• bondage
• bondfolk
• bondland
• bondly
• bondmaid
• bondman, bondsman
• bondservant
• bond-service
• bond-slave
• bond-tenant
• bondwoman, bondswoman

Related terms

• boor
• bower

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?nt/
• Hyphenation: bond
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: bont

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bund. The word could also be neuter until the 19th century, when it became increasingly common under the influence of German Bund.

Noun

bond m (plural bonden, diminutive bondje n)

1. society, fellowship

   Synonym: verbond

2. union, association, guild

   vakbond - trade union

3. coalition, alliance, league

   Volkenbond - League of Nations

4. covenant, agreement
5. (dated) bundle (set of objects packed or tied together)

Derived terms

• bondsrepubliek
• bondsstaat
• Volkenbond

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bond
• ? Papiamentu: bònt

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

bond

1. singular past indicative of binden

French

Etymology

From bondir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/
• Homophones: bon, bons, bonds
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

bond m (plural bonds)

1. jump, bound, leap
2. bounce

Derived terms

• faire faux bond

Further reading

• “bond” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

bond

1. Alternative form of band