cord – Wiktionary

English[edit]Etymology[edit]

From Middle English corde, from Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Doric Ancient Greek (khord, string of gut, the string of a lyre) (compare Ionic (khord), from Proto-Indo-European *er- (bowel)). More at yarn and hernia.

cord (countable and uncountable, plural cords)

The burglar tied up the victim with a cord.

He looped some cord around his fingers.

Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood isby the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.

"If they buy three cords of birch logs," said the witch, "but they must be exact measure and no bargaining about the price, and if they throw overboard the one cord of logs, piece by piece, when the first sea comes, and the other cord, piece by piece, when the second sea comes, and the third cord, piece by piece, when the third sea comes, then it's all over with us."

Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn, / Edged with sharp laughter, cuts atwain / The knots that tangle human creeds, / The wounding cords that bind and strain / The heart until it bleeds, []

spermatic cord; spinal cord; umbilical cord; vocal cords

length of twisted strands

wires surrounded by a coating, used to supply electricity

unit of measurement for firewood

cord (third-person singular simple present cords, present participle cording, simple past and past participle corded)

cord

Borrowed from Latin cor, cordis.

cordn (plural corduri)

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cord - Wiktionary