What is "bonding"

Usage examples of "bonding".

Pennsylvania statute providing for the licensing and bonding of all milk dealers and fixing a minimum price to be paid producers, as applied to a dealer purchasing milk within the State for shipment to points outside it.

Saying such a thing would have been unthinkable on many different levels, and while Merise had become somewhat accustomed to doing the unthinkable -- most sisters would faint at the very idea of bonding a man who could channel -- she was never comfortable giving them voice.

Darkwind had briefly toyed with the notion of bonding to an owlet, but Vree had displayed a great deal of jealousy at the idea, and he had discarded it, albeit regretfully.

At the moment, Pex and Chips were bonding under a full moon while Mulch dug a dwarf-sized pit in the dry clay behind an abandoned cement factory.

Then he began to press the jeweled studs within the box, bonding the talismanic coronet to himself.

The tiny creatures secreted a chemical cement, bonding the minute grains of dirt together so the odd-shaped tumuli glimmered with a metallic purple-and-blue sheen under the intense sunlight.

In the Alice Lukens example below, a group of fifth-grade girls, who masturbate on gym ropes and as a result call themselves the Vine Sisters, add a new twist to female bonding.

It weaned itself on radionuclides and leached them out of the bedrock by bonding them in solution.

Although we may not be immediately aware of them, they help us to experience Don Quixote and Sancho as complex, verisimilar characters, and they certainly facilitate the process of bonding that occurs between them.

The two spent many late nights bonding over pitchers of beer in several Beltsville taverns.

And that made her think, shyly and almost for the first time, what it might be like to have a lover, to have a bond with someone as close to her as the hawk, tied in mind and heart and even in body, but someone with whom she could communicate, not as the MacArans did with their horses and hounds and hawks, across the vast gulf that lay between man and horse, women and hawk, child and dog, but with the close bonding of species.

Serotonin, phenylethylamine and oxytocin which is the one responsible for the bonding between a mother and her baby.

And so all the rituals of traditional male bonding and rivalry -- locker room pranks, pissing contests, comparisons of penis size -- get turned into something goofier and finer.

But on Earth they had entered the servitude, so to speak, of biological evolution and only in that context amazed man with subtlety—the subtlety of the complex bondings that combined to form organisms and the interdependent hierarchies of species.

I don't think either of them have any idea how well they mesh, but I've seen a hundred bondings and this is one of the best.