Definition of Chord

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Definition of Chord

Chord

The string of a musical instrument.

A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

A cord. See Cord, n., 4.

The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.

To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

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Chord Quotations

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Albert Camus

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank Zappa

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.
Neil Young

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.
Keanu Reeves

I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.
Charlie Watts

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
Sid Vicious

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
Ville Valo

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.
Billy Corgan

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
Ace Frehley

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
Joni Mitchell

Chord Translations

chord in Danish is akkord
chord in Dutch is overeenstemming, accoord, akkoord
chord in French is forfait
chord in German is Akkord {m}, Saite {f}, Akkord {m}
chord in Portuguese is corda

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