(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.
Prearrange
Definition:
(v. t.) To arrange beforehand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(2) Health Maintenance Organizations are defined by the following characteristics: 1) they are total health care delivery systems; 2) they consist of a voluntarily enrolled population; 3) agreed-upon services are provided by a prearranged and prepaid fee; and 4) the organizations bear the risk of providing the services for the prearranged fee.
(3) Blood samples were collected by femoral vein puncture with light anesthesia under prearranged schedule and were assayed for LH-RH, LH, estrogen and progestin.
(4) Angela Merkel's spokesman said a prearranged meeting was taking place, but it had nothing to do with the idea that Greece would leave the euro.
(5) Insiders at News Corp, which last week disclosed the phone-hacking scandal had so far cost it almost $200m, maintain it is a prearranged visit that has nothing to do with the latest allegations dogging Murdoch's newspaper interests.
(6) Without minimizing the demonstrated effectiveness of short-term therapies, we propose that setting prearranged time limits be either replaced or supplemented by the implementation of a "time limited attitude."
(7) Making a regular, prearranged appearance before the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) , which oversees the force, Stephenson conceded again that he had "got it wrong" on the first student protest a fortnight ago when fewer than 250 officers were overwhelmed by a crowd of more than 50,000, some of whom stormed the office building containing the Conservative party headquarters.
(8) At a prearranged press conference Cameron and Clegg tried to draw a line under the episode by chiding Cable, saying he had been right to be embarrassed and to apologise.
(9) He denied it, brushed it off, claimed it was a prearranged gift and got away with it.
(10) Neoadjuvant intra-arterial chemotherapy followed by partial cystectomy should be the most applicable conservative therapy with high radicality for invasive bladder cancer, when: 1) the patient has localized invasive cancer showing good response (greater than or equal to PR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, 2) the tumor is stage T3a or less and without findings of tentacular invasion (INF gamma) by pre-operative biopsy, and 3) pre-operative multiple biopsy is performed as deeply as possible along the prearranged incision line.
(11) Spontaneity and deviation from prearranged plans was featured in many of the accidents.
(12) We have the setting and the instrument, both of which exist naturally and without any prearranged orchestration.
(13) John Joe comes from a proud travelling family; Luke's grandad was Irish and ended up in England in unusual circumstances, on the lam to the UK after losing a prearranged fight to one of his fiance's brothers.
(14) Uranium Registry (USUR) Case 1001] had prearranged for donation of her body to the USUR and the National Cancer Institute for study.
(15) 27 patients were seen at a prearranged outpatient clinic 10 to 15 years after the last operation.
(16) One hundred and eighty-eight anesthesiologists were tested to compare the number of prearranged anesthesia machine faults that could be detected with 1) their own checkout methods and 2) the FDA checklist.
(17) But the members of the ISC are appointed by the prime minister and not by parliament, and there was criticism when it emerged after the hearing that the questions asked had been prearranged with the security chiefs.
(18) Group III received the same dose schedule of prostaglandin after intracervical laminaria tents had been inserted, and prochlorperazine and Lomotil were administered by the prearranged dose schedule.
(19) Information about emergency equipment, prearranged emergency plans, advanced life support training, and emergency medical services assistance was elicited.
(20) Home visiting often achieves much more than prearranged hospital or clinic appointments which are often not kept.