cording
Meaning
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- Decorative cord, often wrapped in colored fabric or foil
- The resultant decoration, or the act of decorating with cording
Etymology
From cord + -ing.
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cord
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- A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (a rope, for example).
- Any quantity of such material when viewed as a mass or commodity.
- 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.
- 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.
- Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
- Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
- Dated form of chord: musical sense.
- Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
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