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Grammar : Noun
Spell : kawrd
Phonetic Transcription : kɔrd



Définition of cord

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French corde "rope, string, twist, cord," from Latin chorda "string of a musical instrument, cat-gut," from Greek khorde "string, catgut, chord, cord," from PIE root *ghere- "intestine" (see yarn). As a measure of wood (eight feet long, four feet high and wide) first recorded 1610s, so called because it was measured with a cord of rope.
  • noun rope
Example sentences :
  • It is but the eye to the cord, the cord to the shaft, and the shaft to the mark.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The great bow creaked and groaned and the cord vibrated with the tension.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Johnson was stationed in the powder-magazine, in charge of the cord which held the bait.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • I said, holding up his wrist where the remnant of the cord was hanging.
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
  • These vermin are more to be feared than hangman's cord or headsman's axe.'
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • With a howl the dog sprang forward, snapping the cord, and rushed after his master.
  • Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
  • Then with her slender fingers she tried to unfasten the knots that secured the cord.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • Fingers were fumbling at the top of my sack, unfastening the cord.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • Two or three little bits of the cord chipped off and drifted away.
  • Extract from : « Satellite System » by Horace Brown Fyfe
  • And Kettering took up his cord again as if to continue his measuring.
  • Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill

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