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accord
English
Etymology
- First attested in the late 13th century.
- From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accord?, accord?re (“to be heart to heart with”), formed from Latin ad + cor (“heart”).
- The verb is first attested in early 12th century.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??k??d/
- (US) IPA(key): /??k??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Noun
accord (countable and uncountable, plural accords)
- Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
- 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14
- These all continued with one accord in prayer.
- 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14
- A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
- Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- (international law) An international agreement.
- (obsolete) Assent
- Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
Synonyms
- (concurrence of opinion): consent, assent
- (international agreement): treaty
Derived terms
- of one's own accord
- with one accord
Related terms
- chord
Translations
Verb
accord (third-person singular simple present accords, present participle according, simple past and past participle accorded)
- (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
- (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
- (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
- (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.
Translations
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Deverbal of accorder. Compare with Catalan acord.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.k??/
Noun
accord m (plural accords)
- chord
- agreement
- permission, consent
Derived terms
- accord parfait
- accorder
- d'accord
- d'un commun accord
- désaccord
Descendants
- ? Danish: akkord
- ? German: Akkord
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: akkord
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: akkord
Further reading
- “accord” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- cocard
Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
accord m (plural accords)
- (Jersey) agreement
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chime
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?t?a?m/
- Rhymes: -a?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English chime, chim, chimbe, chymbe, a shortening of chimbelle (misinterpreted as chymme-belle, chimbe-belle), from Old English ?imbala, ?imbal (“cymbal”), from Latin cymbalum.
Noun
chime (plural chimes)
- (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
- An individual ringing component of such a set.
- A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
- The sound of such an instrument or device.
- A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- chimist
- clock chime
Translations
Verb
chime (third-person singular simple present chimes, present participle chiming, simple past and past participle chimed)
- (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
- (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
- And chime their sounding hammers.
- (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- 1809, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
- Chime his childish verse.
- 1809, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
- (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
- Everything chimed in with such a humor.
- To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
- a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Ode Upon Liberty
- It shall not keep one settled pace of time,
In the same tune it shall not always chime
- It shall not keep one settled pace of time,
- a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Ode Upon Liberty
Translations
Derived terms
- chime in, chime up
Etymology 2
Noun
chime (plural chimes)
- Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)
Anagrams
- Chiem, chemi-, hemic, miche
Irish
Noun
chime m
- Lenited form of cime.
Japanese
Romanization
chime
- R?maji transcription of ??
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