Bond vs. Link — What's the Difference?

A strong connection between people or entities.

A connection between two things.

In chemistry, a force that holds atoms together.

In computing, a reference to another document.

A financial investment representing a loan.

A physical or conceptual association.

An agreement or promise.

A segment of a chain.

Emotional ties that unite individuals.

To establish a relationship or connection.

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

One of the rings or loops forming a chain.

Often bonds Confinement in prison; captivity.

A unit in a connected series of units

A uniting force or relationship; a link

A unit in a transportation or communications system.

A binding agreement; a covenant.

A connecting element; a tie or bond

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

An association; a relationship

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

A causal, parallel, or reciprocal relationship; a correlation

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

A cufflink.

A chemical bond.

A unit of length used in surveying, equal to 0.01 chain, 7.92 inches, or about 20.12 centimeters.

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

A rod or lever transmitting motion in a machine.

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

(Computers)A graphical item or segment of text in a webpage or other electronic document that, when clicked, causes another webpage or section of the same webpage to be displayed

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 torch formerly used for lighting one's way in the streets.

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 put together physically, as with links

A sum pledged as a guarantee.

To connect, relate, or associate

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

To make or have a link to (another webpage or electronic document)

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

To make a link in (a webpage or electronic document)

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

To be or become joined together physically

Bond paper.

To be or become connected, related, or associated

To join securely, as with glue or cement.

To make or have a link to a webpage or electronic document

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

To follow a link in a webpage or electronic document

To finance by issuing bonds

A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.

To raise by issuing bonds

One element of a chain or other connected series.

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

Abbreviation of hyperlink

To issue a surety bond or a fidelity bond for.

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.

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

(mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

To cohere with a bond.

(figurative) an individual person or element in a system

To form a close personal relationship.

Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

To secure release from prison by providing a bail bond

A sausage that is not a patty.

(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.

(kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

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

(engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

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.

(surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.

A physical connection which binds, a band.

(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

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

(in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.

Moral or political duty or obligation.

(broadcasting) An introductory cue.

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

(obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.

A binding agreement, a covenant.

(transitive) To connect two or more things.

A bail bond.

To contain a hyperlink to another page.

Any constraining or cementing force or material.

To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.

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

To post a hyperlink to.

(Scotland) A mortgage.

(transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.

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

(compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.

A peasant; churl.

To meet with someone.

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

To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.

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

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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

A single ring or division of a chain.

To form a chemical compound with.

Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.

(transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.

Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.

To form a friendship or emotional connection.

Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

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

Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

To lay bricks in a specific pattern.

A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; - applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

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

Sausages; - because linked together.

To bail out by means of a bail bond.

A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc.

Subject to the tenure called bondage.

A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; - usually in pl.

In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.

Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.

Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.

Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played; a golf course.

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.

To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.

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

To be connected.

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

The means of connection between things linked in series

Moral or political duty or obligation.

A fastener that serves to join or link;

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.

The state of being connected;

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.

A connecting shape

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

A unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain

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.

(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list

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 channel for communication between groups;

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

A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network

League; association; confederacy.

An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data

A vassal or serf; a slave.

Make a logical or causal connection;

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.

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

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

Be or become joined or united or linked;

In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

Link with or as with a yoke;

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

Held in slavery;

Bonds are generally stronger and more durable, often requiring significant time and emotional investment, whereas links can vary in strength and may be more temporary.

While bonds are typically viewed positively, they can become negative if they restrict personal growth or involve unhealthy dependencies.

Links are crucial for navigation and information discovery on the internet, connecting users to relevant content and resources.

A bond is a strong, often deep connection between people, entities, or concepts, characterized by emotional, financial, or physical ties.

Yes, over time and with increased interaction, a link can develop into a bond, especially in relationships or networks.

Yes, bonds can form through shared experiences or emotional investments, even without direct interaction, as seen in fan communities or between readers and authors.

Links in social networks facilitate connections between individuals, allowing for communication, information exchange, and community building.

A link refers to a connection or association between two things, which can be temporary, situational, or part of a larger network.

Trust, shared experiences, and mutual commitment contribute to making a bond strong and potentially unbreakable.

Hyperlinks are foundational to the web, enabling the interconnection of content across the internet, facilitating user navigation and information access.

Chemical bonds represent the physical forces holding atoms together, mirroring the concept of bonds as strong, foundational connections in other contexts.

By connecting information and resources, links enable a more integrated and accessible learning experience.

Yes, bonds can strengthen, weaken, or change nature over time based on circumstances and continued investment in the relationship.

Links can be both physical (as in a chain link) and digital (as in a hyperlink), demonstrating the term's broad applicability.

Financial bonds represent formal, legal agreements between borrowers and lenders, showcasing the term's versatility in denoting strong, agreed-upon connections with specific terms.