Bond vs. Tie — What's the Difference?

A lasting connection between individuals or entities.

A physical or metaphorical connection between things or ideas.

A legal agreement to ensure obligation.

A railway tie, a horizontal beam that supports the rails.

The phenomenon of elements being held together by chemical forces.

A necktie, a strip of cloth worn around the neck.

A financial instrument indicating debt.

An equality in score or position in a competition.

An emotional attachment to a place or thing.

A restriction or limit on action or movement.

Something, such as a fetter, cord, or band, that binds, ties, or fastens things together.

Attach or fasten with string or similar cord

Often bonds Confinement in prison; captivity.

Restrict or limit (someone) to a particular situation or place

A uniting force or relationship; a link

Connect; link

A binding agreement; a covenant.

Achieve the same score or ranking as another competitor or team

A duty, promise, or other obligation by which one is bound.

A piece of string, cord, or similar used for fastening or tying something

A substance or agent that causes two or more objects or parts to cohere.

A rod or beam holding parts of a structure together.

The union or cohesion brought about by such a substance or agent.

A thing that unites or links people

A chemical bond.

A strip of material worn round the collar and tied in a knot at the front with the ends hanging down, typically forming part of a man's smart or formal outfit

A systematically overlapping or alternating arrangement of bricks or stones in a wall, designed to increase strength and stability.

A result in a game or other competitive situation in which two or more competitors or teams have the same score or ranking; a draw

A written obligation requiring the payment of a sum at a certain time.

A sports match between two or more players or teams in which the winners proceed to the next round of the competition

A debt security obligating a government or corporation to pay a specified amount on a future date, especially a marketable security that makes semiannual interest payments.

To fasten or secure with or as if with a cord, rope, or strap

A guarantee issued by a surety agency on behalf of a client, requiring the surety to pay a sum of money to a third party in the event the client fails to fulfill certain obligations; a surety bond.

To fasten by drawing together the parts or sides and knotting with strings or laces

A sum pledged as a guarantee.

To make by fastening ends or parts

A sum paid as a guarantee of a person's appearance at court for trial; bail

To put a knot or bow in

The condition of being held under the guarantee of a customs bond

To confine or restrict as if with cord

An insurance contract that indemnifies an employer for loss resulting from a fraudulent or dishonest act by an employee; a fidelity bond.

To equal (an opponent or an opponent's score) in a contest.

Bond paper.

To equal an opponent's score in (a contest)

To join securely, as with glue or cement.

(Music)To join (notes) by a tie.

To join (two or more individuals) in a relationship, as by shared belief or experience

To be fastened or attached

To finance by issuing bonds

To achieve equal scores in a contest.

To raise by issuing bonds

A cord, string, or other means by which something is tied.

To gain the release of (someone who has been arrested) by providing a bail bond

A necktie.

To issue a surety bond or a fidelity bond for.

A beam or rod that joins parts and gives support.

To lay (bricks or stones) in an overlapping or alternating pattern.

One of the timbers or slabs of concrete laid across a railroad bed to support the rails.

To cohere with a bond.

An equality of scores, votes, or performance in a contest

To form a close personal relationship.

A contest so resulting; a draw.

To secure release from prison by providing a bail bond

(Music)A curved line above or below two notes of the same pitch, indicating that the tone is to be sustained for their combined duration.

(legal) 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.

A knot; a fastening.

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

A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

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.

A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.

A physical connection which binds, a band.

A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.

An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.

A strong connection between people or groups of people.

Moral or political duty or obligation.

(construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.

(chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.

A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.

A binding agreement, a covenant.

The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.

A bail bond.

(cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).

Any constraining or cementing force or material.

An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).

(construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.

A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.

(Scotland) A mortgage.

(music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.

(railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.

(statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.

A peasant; churl.

(surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.

A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.

(graph theory) A connection between two vertices.

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

A tiewig.

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

(transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.

To form a chemical compound with.

(transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.

(transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.

(transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.

To form a friendship or emotional connection.

To secure (something) by string or the like.

(transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.

(ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.

To lay bricks in a specific pattern.

To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.

To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).

(music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

To bail out by means of a bail bond.

To believe; to credit.

Subject to the tenure called bondage.

In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.

In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.

A knot; a fastening.

Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.

A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

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.

An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.

The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.

A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.

A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.

A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.

Moral or political duty or obligation.

Low shoes fastened with lacings.

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.

To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.

A financial instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; a written promise to pay a specific sum of money on or before a specified day, given in return for a sum of money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.

The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.

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 bond 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.

To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.

A unit of chemical attraction between atoms; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. Also called chemical bond. It is often represented in graphic formulæ by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence. Several types of bond are distinguished by chemists, as double bond, triple bond, covalent bond, hydrogen bond.

To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.

A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.

To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.

League; association; confederacy.

To make a tie; to make an equal score.

A vassal or serf; a slave.

Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front;

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.

A social or business relationship;

To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.

The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided;

In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

A horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating;

An electrical force linking atoms

A fastener that serves to join or link;

A certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal

Equality of score in a contest

A connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest;

(music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value

(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial;

One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track;

A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

A cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied;

A connection that fastens things together

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord;

A superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents

Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.;

United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)

Limit or restrict to;

British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming

Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;

The property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

Form a knot or bow in;

Stick to firmly;

Create social or emotional ties;

Create social or emotional ties;

Perform a marriage ceremony;

Issue bonds on

Make by tying pieces together;

Held in slavery;

Unite musical notes by a tie

"Tie" can be used to refer to connections, relationships, or even in the sense of achieving the same score in a competition.

Not all bonds are legally binding; emotional or personal bonds, for instance, are not enforceable by law.

To bond with someone means to develop a close and lasting relationship.

In social terms, a bond refers to a strong, enduring connection between individuals built on trust, affection, or common goals.

In finance, there are several types of bonds, including government bonds, corporate bonds, and municipal bonds.

Chemical bonds involve the sharing or transfer of electrons between atoms, creating stable molecules.

While a tie can be part of forming a bond, it usually refers to a lighter or more temporary connection.

A railway tie functions to hold the rails upright and keep them properly spaced.

Tying a score in sports often leads to extra time or other methods to break the tie and determine a winner.

Yes, what starts as a casual tie can evolve into a deeper bond through shared experiences and emotional investment.

A bail bond is a financial agreement made by a criminal defendant or a surety to ensure the defendant's appearance in court.

Having family ties implies having family relationships that may influence decisions or behaviors.

A necktie is often worn as a symbol of professionalism or formality.

A business tie refers to a connection or collaboration, which is usually less formal and binding than a business bond, which implies a significant commitment or contract.

Ties in organizations can facilitate or complicate decision-making, depending on the nature of the connections and the context.