cord

Meaning

1. A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (a rope, for example).
2. Any quantity of such material when viewed as a mass or commodity.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
6. Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
7. Dated form of chord: musical sense.
8. Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.

rope

straw rope

electric cord

thin rope

clothes-line

zigzag line

laniard

striature

strand of wool

fthm

lash together

wire ropes

small tube

wide wale

chorda

jack cord

heavy cord

music line

cord, string

electric cable

rectify

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɔɹd/

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 *ǵʰer- (“bowel”)). More at yarn and hernia.

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