Synonyms for cord
| 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
- 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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