Friendship vs. Bond — What's the Difference?

A bond of mutual trust and respect.

A financial investment involving debt securities.

A supportive and caring connection.

An emotional tie that connects individuals.

An informal association between individuals who share common interests.

A connection that obligates two or more parties.

A close and affectionate relationship between two or more people.

An agreement with legal force.

A voluntary and personal relationship.

A link formed by a shared experience or trait.

Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. It is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association, and has been studied in academic fields such as communication, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and philosophy.

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

The quality or condition of being friends.

Often bonds Confinement in prison; captivity.

A friendly relationship

A uniting force or relationship; a link

Friendliness; good will

A binding agreement; a covenant.

(uncountable) The condition of being friends.

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

(countable) A friendly relationship, or a relationship as friends.

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

(uncountable) Good will.

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

The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.

A chemical bond.

Kindly aid; help; assistance,

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

Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence.

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

The state of being friends

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.

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.

A sum pledged as a guarantee.

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

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

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

Bond paper.

To join securely, as with glue or cement.

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

To finance by issuing bonds

To raise by issuing bonds

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

To issue a surety bond or a fidelity bond for.

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

To cohere with a bond.

To form a close personal relationship.

To secure release from prison by providing a bail bond

(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.

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

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 physical connection which binds, a band.

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

Moral or political duty or obligation.

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

A binding agreement, a covenant.

A bail bond.

Any constraining or cementing force or material.

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

(Scotland) A mortgage.

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

A peasant; churl.

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

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

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

To form a chemical compound with.

(transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.

To form a friendship or emotional connection.

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

To lay bricks in a specific pattern.

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

To bail out by means of a bail bond.

Subject to the tenure called bondage.

In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.

Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.

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.

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

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

Moral or political duty or obligation.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

League; association; confederacy.

A vassal or serf; a slave.

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.

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

In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

An electrical force linking atoms

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

A connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest;

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

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

A connection that fastens things together

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

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)

British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming

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

Stick to firmly;

Create social or emotional ties;

Issue bonds on

Bring together in a common cause or emotion;

Held in slavery;

A friendship is defined by voluntary, mutual affection and shared experiences among individuals.

Generally, friendships inherently include an emotional bond through mutual affection.

Trust is crucial in friendships for maintaining the relationship, and in bonds, especially legal ones, to ensure compliance and reliability.

A bond can be formed both voluntarily and involuntarily, including emotional, legal, or financial ties, unlike a friendship which is always voluntary.

Yes, friendships can deepen into emotional bonds that are powerful and enduring.

A mortgage agreement between a borrower and a lender is an example of a legal bond.

Yes, especially in the case of financial or legal bonds, personal interaction is not necessary.

Mutual effort, communication, and shared values help make a friendship durable.

Friendships can significantly enhance mental health by providing emotional support and reducing feelings of loneliness.

Not all bonds are legally binding; some are purely emotional or social, like those formed in communities or families.

Breaking a bond, depending on its nature, can result in emotional distress, or in legal or financial penalties.

Friendships influence social behavior by encouraging social interaction, cooperation, and empathy among individuals.