Definition of Cord

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Definition of Cord

Cord

A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.

Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.

Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.

See Chord.

To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.

To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

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Cord Quotations

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

I invented the cordless extension cord.
Steven Wright

I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.
Mitch Hedberg

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.
Joan Rivers

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
William Butler Yeats

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
Kirk Hammett

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Irwin Shaw

You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.
Blair Underwood

Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
Nathan Deal

But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.
Dan Lipinski

Cord Translations

cord in Danish is reb, snor
cord in Dutch is snaar, koorde, stemband
cord in French is corde, cordon
cord in German is Schnur, Strick
cord in Italian is cordicella, spago
cord in Latin is funis -is, funiculus, funis
cord in Portuguese is cabo, corda

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