cord
Forms
- Plural
- cords
- present (v1)
- cord
- past (v2)
- corded
- past participle (v3)
- corded
- present participle
- cording
- 3rd person singular
- cords
Definitions
1.A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fibre (a rope, for example).
- The burglar tied up the victim with a cord.
2.Any quantity of such material when viewed as a mass or commodity.
- He looped some cord around his fingers.
3.A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
4.A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
1.To flatten a book during binding.
2.To furnish with cords.
3.To tie or fasten with cords.
4.To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4915
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Middle English corde, from Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH- (“bowels, intestines”)).
Doublet of chord and cuerda.
More at yarn and hernia.