# cord
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English corde, from Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH- (“bowels, intestines”)). More at yarn and hernia.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /kɔɹd/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɔːd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
* Homophones: chord; cored (horse–hoarse merger); cawed (non-rhotic)

### Noun

cord (countable and uncountable, plural cords)
* (countable) A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (a rope, for example).
    The burglar tied up the victim with a cord.
* (uncountable) Any quantity of such material when viewed as a mass or commodity.
    Synonym: cordage
    He looped some cord around his fingers.
* A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
* A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
** 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Battering-ram”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 376: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 is—by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.
** 1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “Mackerel Trolling”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 187:'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.'
* (figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
** 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “To—”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 15: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, […]
** 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:Every detail of the house and garden was familiar; a thousand cords of memory and affection drew him thither; but a stronger counter-motive prevailed.
* (anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
    spermatic cord; spinal cord; umbilical cord; vocal cords
** 2015 August 4, Diana Fiorentini et al., “Polyphenols as Modulators of Aquaporin Family in Health and Disease”, in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity‎, volume 2015, →DOI:Since spinal cord injury is associated with edema and changes in AQP4 expression, Ge and coworkers investigated the potential antiedema effect of epigallocatechin gallate and its underlying mechanism on a rat model of acute spinal cord injury.
* Dated form of chord: musical sense.
* Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.

#### Synonyms

* (length of twisted strands): cable, twine
* (wires surrounded by an insulating coating, used to supply electricity): cable, flex
* See also Thesaurus:string

#### Derived terms

* bait-cord
* bedcord
* Bedford cord
* body cord
* bungee cord
* bungy cord
* citation cord
* communication cord
* cord-cutter
* cord-cutting
* cordectomy
* cordel
* corder
* cord factor
* cordgrass
* cordite
* cordless
* cordlike
* cordmaker
* cordmaking
* cordocentesis
* cordopexy
* cordotomy
* cord set
* cordset
* corduroy
* cordwood
* cordy
* cut the cord
* cut the umbilical cord
* detcord
* detonating cord
* detonation cord
* discord
* drawcord
* emergency cord
* extension cord
* genital cord
* hemicord
* kill cord
* kook cord
* needlecord
* nerve cord
* neurocord
* nuchal cord
* oblique cord
* paracord
* power cord
* primer cord
* pullcord
* pull cord
* rheocord
* ripcord
* russel cord
* sash cord
* spermatic cord
* spinal cord
* tailcord
* trip cord
* true vocal cord
* umbilical cord
* uncord
* ventral nerve cord
* ventriculocordectomy
* vocal cord
* vocal cord nodule
* vocal cords
* whipcord

#### Translations

Arabic: خَيْط (ar) m (ḵayṭ), حَبْل m (ḥabl)
Aromanian: coardã f
Assamese: জৰী (zori)
Belarusian: вяро́ўка (be) f (vjaróŭka), шво́рка f (švórka), шнур m (šnur)
Bulgarian: връв (bg) m (vrǎv), кана́п (bg) m (kanáp), шнур (bg) m (šnur), въже́ (bg) n (vǎžé)
Catalan: corda (ca) f, cordill (ca) m
Chickasaw: ishtalakchi', shtalakchi'
Chinese:
Mandarin: 繩 / 绳 (zh) (shéng), 繩子 / 绳子 (zh) (shéngzi)
Coptic: ⲛⲟϩ (noh)
Crimean Tatar: şnur
Czech: provaz (cs) m, šňůra (cs) f
Dalmatian: canapial f
Dutch: touw (nl) n, koord (nl) f, zeel (nl) n
Egyptian: (nwḥ)
Esperanto: ŝnuro (eo)
Finnish: naru (fi)
French: corde (fr) f
Galician: corda (gl) f, bramante m
German: Schnur (de) f, Kordel (de) f, Strick (de) m
Greek: σχοινί (el) n (schoiní)
Ancient: σχοινίον n (skhoiníon), σειρά f (seirá), θῶμιγξ f (thôminx)
Hindi: तार (hi) m (tār)
Hungarian: zsinór (hu), zsineg (hu), madzag (hu), spárga (hu)
Ingrian: šnurkka
Irish: ruóg f
Italian: cordone m
Japanese: 縄 (ja) (なわ, nawa)
Kabuverdianu: bulina
Korean: 밧줄 (ko) (batjul)
Latin: fūnis m, restis f
Latvian: virve (lv) f
Macedonian: вр́вца f (vŕvca), вр́вка f (vŕvka), шнур m (šnur), га́јтан (mk) m (gájtan)
Maori: kopu, taihere, kārure
Middle English: corde, rop, teye
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tau (no) n
Old English: sīma m
Ottoman Turkish: ایپ (ip), خلاط (halat), طنب (tunub), ریسمان (risman)
Plautdietsch: Baunt m
Portuguese: corda (pt) f, barbante (pt) m
Quechua: anku, watu
Romanian: cordon (ro), coardă (ro) f
Russian: верёвка (ru) f (verjóvka), шнур (ru) m (šnur)
Scottish Gaelic: teud m
Spanish: cuerda (es) f, cable (es) m, cordón (es) m, cordel (es) m, mecate (es) m, libán m, laja (es) f, cordería f (bundle of cords)
Tocharian B: śerkw
Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎁𐎍 (ḥbl)
Ukrainian: шнур m (šnur), моту́зка f (motúzka), вірьо́вка f (virʹóvka), шво́рка f (švórka), шнур m (šnur)
Woiwurrung: woodol-woodol
Zulu: intambo (zu) class 9/10 :

### Verb

cord (third-person singular simple present cords, present participle cording, simple past and past participle corded)
* To furnish with cords
* To tie or fasten with cords
* To flatten a book during binding
* To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

## Middle English
### Noun

cord
* Alternative form of corde

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cor, cordis.

### Noun

cord n (plural corduri)
* (anatomy) heart
    Synonym: inimă

#### Related terms

* cordial

## Welsh
### Noun

cord m (plural cordiau)
* Alternative form of cort (“cord”)
* (music) chord

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “cord”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh-English Dictionary, Gwerin
* Delyth Prys, J.P.M. Jones, Owain Davies, Gruffudd Prys (2006) Y Termiadur: termau wedi'u safoni; standardised terminology‎ (in Welsh), Cardiff: Awdurdod cymwysterau, cwricwlwm ac asesu Cymru (Qualifications curriculum & assessment authority for Wales), →ISBN
* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cord”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies