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chord
English
Alternative forms
- (music): cord (dated)
Etymology
Variant of cord, with spelling alteration due to Latin chorda (“cord”), ultimately from Ancient Greek (Doric) ????? (khordá), (Ionic) ????? (khord?, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k??(?)d/
- (US) enPR: kôrd, IPA(key): /k??d/
- Homophones: cord, cored (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Noun
chord (plural chords)
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve.
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
Derived terms
- mixed-interval chord
- strike a chord, touch a chord
- glasschord
Translations
Verb
chord (third-person singular simple present chords, present participle chording, simple past and past participle chorded)
- (transitive) To write chords for.
- (music) To accord; to harmonize together.
- This note chords with that one.
- (transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
- When Jubal struck the chorded shell.
- 1862, Henry Ward Beecher, Eyes and Ears
- Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
Translations
See also
- simultaneity
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chors
English
Verb
chors
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chor
Anagrams
- Schor
chors From the web:
- what chord is this
- what chord is this piano
- what chords go together
- what chords are in the key of c
- what chords are in the key of g
- what chord is this ukulele
- what chords are in the key of a
- what chords are in the key of d
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