(n.) That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.
(n.) The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.
(n.) A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.
(n.) Moral or political duty or obligation.
(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; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum.
(n.) An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.
(n.) The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in 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; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.
(n.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence.
(v. t.) To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.
(v. t.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.
(n.) A vassal or serf; a slave.
(a.) In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.
Example Sentences:
(1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(2) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(3) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
(4) It was found that there is a significant difference in bond strengths between enamel and stainless steel with strength to enamel the greater.
(5) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(6) Genotoxic carcinogens form covalent bonds with proteins as well as with DNA.
(7) Accordingly, when bFGF, complexed to heparin, is treated with pepsin A, an aspartic protease with a broad specificity, only the Leu9-Pro10 peptide bond is cleaved generating the 146-amino acid form.
(8) The bond distances of Cu to Cl(1), Cl(2), N(3) and N(3') atoms are 2.299 (1), 2.267 (1), 1.985 (4) and 1.996 (3) A, respectively.
(9) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
(10) We propose that, for a GC base pair in B conformation, there are two amino proton exchangeable states--a cytosine amino proton exchangeable state and a guanine amino proton exchangeable state; both require the disruption of only the corresponding interbase H bond.
(11) Furthermore, we demonstrate that reduction of the disulfide bonds of a pre-processed A-loop containing heterodimeric insulin peptide is required to further process insulin into a T cell epitope.
(12) Analysis of bond values of glass ionomer added to glass ionomer indicate bond variability and low cohesive bond strength of the material.
(13) All N and O atoms except N(3) and O(4') participate in a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonding system.
(14) The coatings formed contain only stable chemical bonds (e.g., C-C, C-O-C), and easily-derivatized hydroxyl moieties.
(15) S100b protein, chemically modified by thioethanol groups (linked via disulfide bonds to two out of four Cys per dimer) was largely similar to reduced native S100b protein in its overall structure and differed only by small modifications extending, however, to the whole protein structure.
(16) The relative cleavage frequency at the first glycosidic bond counting from the nonreducing end of the substrate increases with increasing substrate concentration.
(17) We found that the closer location of Mg2+ to the beta-phosphoryl group than to the alpha- or gamma-phosphoryl group was effective in weakening the P-O bond at which the cleavage of ATP catalyzed by most enzymes takes place.
(18) Brief digestion at neutral pH without reduction produced a molecule in which the Fab and Fc fragments were still linked by a pair of labile disulphide bridges, and the Fc fragment released by cleaving these bonds, called 1Fc fragment, contained a portion of the ;hinge' region including an interchain disulphide bridge.
(19) Both adiphenine.HCl and proadifen.HCl form more stable complexes, suggesting that hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl oxygen by the hydroxyl-group on the rim of the CD ring could be an important contributor to the complexation.
(20) However, peptide bonds between 193 and 194, and 194 and 195 were cleaved in the presence of mAb 1C3 as easily as in the presence of mAb 31A4, suggesting that the region of residues 200 to 202 was obscured by, or within the antibody binding site, but that the region of residues 193 to 195 was not.
Bondholder
Definition:
(n.) A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
Example Sentences:
(1) About a third of those bondholders are ordinary Italians.
(2) Last Monday, INM negotiated a standstill agreement with its bondholders which gave the company another six weeks to repay a €200m debt.
(3) Private sector bondholders, many of them German banks who lent hand over fist to Greece in the runup to the crisis, were largely made good; workers have suffered wage cuts as the government struggles to make repayments to its bailout creditors.
(4) But de Jager said the French plan lets the banks off too lightly, and unless finance ministers impose bigger losses on them, Europe would be "converting private debt into public debt" by lending Greece more money from European taxpayers to pay back bondholders.
(5) "Forecasts suggest the stress tests may reveal a hole of 4 billion to 5 billion euros ($5.5 billion to $6.9 billion), a sum the government believes it can raise through its own cash reserves of 3.6 billion euros, by burning junior bondholders for some 500 million euros and, if necessary, tapping financial markets.
(6) The first stage in INM's restructuring, a debt-for-equity swap, came into effect earlier this month , leaving bondholders with 46% of the company, worth €122m.
(7) INM had already reached an agreement in principle with the group, known as the Ad Hoc Committee of Bondholders, involving a debt-for-equity swap, a rights issue and the continued raising of funds through an asset sell-off.
(8) The NAO said the decision helped save around £1.5bn in future interest payments and ensured these bondholders contributed to the costs of nationalisation.
(9) O'Brien's advisers believe bondholders can be persuaded to take a smaller stake in the business because they will be receiving stock in a company that has a greater chance of success as it will have retained one of its most prized businesses.
(10) In the earlier deal, corporate bondholders and PIBS holders were told to expect losses of about 50% but that has been rejected as too punitive.
(11) Good news: Germany and France have drawn up a sensible plan to ensure that funding and debt crises in the eurozone can be tackled more easily in future, mainly by forcing bondholders to shoulder their share of financial pain from 2013 onwards.
(12) This foresees a €100bn cut or 50% haircut in bondholders' holdings of Greek debt, topped up with €30bn of EU funding, to cut the country's €360bn debt to 120% of GDP by 2020.
(13) Sutherland said the board had considered all the options and agreed to commit £1bn of the Co-op group's funds to cover bad debts in return for a debt for equity swap by bondholders.
(14) Merkel told Greek television that the second rescue package, worth €109bn, might have to be renegotiated amid suggestions this would entail bondholders accepting "haircuts" – write-offs on the debts they are owed – of up to 50% rather than the 21% agreed in July.
(15) The hurdles that have to be jumped are high: there will be four separate votes of bondholders and preference shareholders, and the bank says that if any one of these doesn't succeed, the rescue will fail.
(16) As he issued an apology to customers for the string of scandals to hit the bank, Booker said he was confident the extra money would be found after discussions with shareholders, including the Co-operative Group and the bondholders which backed last year's £1.5bn fund raising.
(17) In June the Co-operative Group outlined plans to list shares in its bank for the first time in a complicated proposal under which bondholders were to take losses while the group would pour £1bn into the bank, some £500m through selling off insurance businesses and another £500m by issuing new bonds to bondholders.
(18) The presumption is that the looming threat of disaster will finally summon the political will and the economic patience to endure the grim years ahead, while Italy's bondholders are kept at bay by the European central bank's outright monetary transactions programme.
(19) CIT said most of its bondholders have agreed a prepackaged reorganisation plan which will reduce total debt by $10bn (£6.1bn) while allowing the company to continue to do business.
(20) While new EU rules mean governments can no longer bail out their banks, if MPS performs weakly in the stress test, the Italian government may be allowed to invoke so-called article 32 to stop some bondholders from incurring losses, said Kinmonth.