different between elective vs bond

English

Etymology

elect +? -ive

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?kt?v/
• Rhymes: -?kt?v

Adjective

elective (comparative more elective, superlative most elective)

1. Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.

   Synonym: electoral

   Antonyms: appointive, hereditary

   • 1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil […] translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory preface to the Marquess of Normanby,^[2]

     For his Conscience could not but whisper to the Arbitrary Monarch, that the Kings of Rome were at first Elective, and Govern’d not without a Senate:

   • 1782, William Cowper, “The Progress of Error” in Poems, London: J. Johnson, p. 43,^[3]

     Man thus endued with an elective voice,

     Must be supplied with objects of his choice.

   • 1854, George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent, Boston: Little, Brown, Volume 6, Chapter 35, p. 185,^[4]

     […] they rested their hopes of redress on the independent use of their elective franchise;

   • 1860, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, “Proto-Leaf,” p. 21,^[5]

     See the populace, millions upon millions, handsome, tall, muscular, both sexes, clothed in easy and dignified clothes?teaching, commanding, marrying, generating, equally electing and elective;

   • 1896, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, “The South African Question” in Speeches and Writings of M. K. Gandhi, Madras: G.A. Natesan, 3rd edition, 1922, p. 6,^[6]

     [The bill] says that no natives of countries (not of European origin) which have not hitherto possessed elective representative institutions […] shall be placed on the voters roll […]

2. Open to choice; freely chosen.

   Synonyms: discretionary, optional, voluntary

   Antonyms: compulsory, mandatory, obligatory, required, involuntary

   • 1654, Thomas Hobbes, Of Libertie and Necessitie, London: F. Eaglesfield, pp. 12-13,^[7]

     […] his Lordship is deceived if he think any spontaneous action after once being checked in it, differs from an action voluntary and elective, for even the setting of a mans foot, in the posture for walking, and the action of ordinary eating was once deliberated of how and when it should be done, and though afterward it became easie & habitual so as to be done without fore-thought, yet that does not hinder but that the act is voluntary and proceedeth from election.

   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 8, pp. 160-161,^[8]

     “You know not then,” said Cecilia, in a faint voice, “my inability to comply?”

     “Your ability, or inability, I presume are elective?”

     “Oh no!—my power is lost!—my fortune itself is gone!”

   • 2001, Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup, Toronto: Viking, p. 23,^[9]

     [Her friends] are, after all, her elective siblings who have distanced themselves from the ways of the past, their families […]

   • 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, New York: Knopf, Chapter 38, p. 346,^[10]

     “ […] That blog is a game that you don’t really take seriously, it’s like choosing an interesting elective evening class to complete your credits.”

   • 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, New York: Vintage, p. 130,

     Now some adventuring imbecile had acquired an elective sickness and was paying its price.

Related terms

• elect
• election

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

elective (plural electives)

1. Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.

Translations

Anagrams

• cleveite

References

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