different between pawn vs bond

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• (US) IPA^(key): /p?n/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /p?n/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /p??n/
• Homophone: porn (non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English pown, pawn, from Anglo-Norman paun, poun (“pawn, pedestrian”) ( = Old French poon, päon, pëon), from Late Latin ped?, ped?nis (“footsoldier”), from Latin p?s, ped- (“foot”). Doublet of peon.

Noun

pawn (plural pawns)

1. (chess) The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
2. (figuratively) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:pawn

Derived terms

• poisoned pawn
• tall pawn

Translations

See also

• Pawn (chess) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Chess_pieces

Etymology 2

From Middle French pan (“pledge, security”), apparently from a Germanic language (compare Middle Dutch pant, Old High German pfant).

Noun

pawn (countable and uncountable, plural pawns)

1. (uncountable) The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.

2. An instance of pawning something.

   • As therefore the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness, so, O Lord, let this day's comfort be the earnest of to-morrow's.

3. (now rare) An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.

   • , New York, 2001, p.106:

     Brokers, takers of pawns, biting userers, I will not admit; yet […] I will tolerate some kind of usery.

   • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Of Usury

     As for mortgaging or pawning, […] men will not take pawns without use [i.e. interest].

4. (rare) A pawnshop; pawnbroker.

Translations

Verb

pawn (third-person singular simple present pawns, present participle pawning, simple past and past participle pawned)

1. To pledge; to stake or wager.
2. To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
   • 1904, Henry Warren, The Customer's Guide to Banking (page 7)

     A certain, and probably an appreciable, proportion of his so-called money at call and short notice would consist of fortnightly advances made to members of the Stock Exchange against pawned stocks and shares.

   • 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone

     But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

Synonyms

• (to deposit at a pawn shop): hock

Translations

See also

• pawn off

Etymology 3

Noun

pawn (countable and uncountable, plural pawns)

1. Alternative form of paan
   • 1892, Chambers's Journal (volume 69, page 320)

     To our English taste, pawn is very offensive; but the natives of India relish it, and regard it as a necessity. It is much eaten by Mohammedans of both sexes, and by the natives of Bengal.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pawn (plural pawns)

1. A gallery.

Etymology 5

Verb

pawn (third-person singular simple present pawns, present participle pawning, simple past and past participle pawned)

1. (video games) Alternative form of pwn

Anagrams

• WPAN

Middle English

Noun

pawn

1. Alternative form of pown (“pawn”)

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