chord
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Variant of cord, with spelling alteration due to Latin chorda (“cord”), ultimately from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”). No relation to French accord (“chord”) and its derivations. Doublet of cuerda.
Inflected forms:
form: chords
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cord
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: chords
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chording
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chorded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chorded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cord
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
pos: noun
examples: He struck the opening chords of the passage; but this time Irene's voice was silent. Victor stopped in the middle of an arpeggio.
gloss: A line segment between two points of a curve.
pos: noun
examples: The simplest method of calculating the radius of a curve in situ is to measure the versine; in railway practice this is done by extending a tape 66 ft. (1 ch.) long in a straight line or chord between two points on the periphery of a curve, and then measuring the maximum distance of the rail from the chord at the centre of the 66 ft. The radius in chains is found by dividing the versine in inches into 99. Thus if a versine measures 3 in., the radius will be 33 ch.
gloss: A horizontal member of a truss.
pos: noun
gloss: A horizontal member of a truss.
pos: noun
gloss: The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
pos: noun
gloss: An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
pos: noun
gloss: A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
pos: noun
examples: Ctrl-K is the default first key for chords, but you can create chords using any keys that you want.
gloss: The string of a musical instrument.
pos: noun
examples: Instruments that made melodious Chime
Was heard, of Harp and Organ; and who mov'd
Their Stops and Chords was seen
gloss: A cord.
pos: noun
gloss: An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
pos: noun
gloss: To write chords for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This chording technique works well for learning any tune, but this is the only tune of the set that I will write out completely as a chorded version.
gloss: To accord; to harmonize together.
pos: verb
examples: This note chords with that one.
gloss: To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When Jubal struck the chorded shell.
Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.
Related words: span
simultaneity
Derived words: accidental chord
augmented sixth chord
barre chord
bell chord
bichord
Blackadder chord
broken chord
chop chord
chordal
chord change
chord changes
chordless
chordlike
chordoma
chord organ
chord progression
chordwise
chordwork
cluster chord
common chord
counterchord
cowboy chord
cycle chord
dichord
diminished seventh chord
dominant seventh chord
enneachord
equal-interval chord
French augmented sixth chord
German augmented sixth chord
glasschord
glassichord
half-diminished seventh chord
hexachord
idiochord
Ikisugi chord
Italian augmented sixth chord
major chord
major seventh chord
minor chord
minor seventh chord
mixed-interval chord
multichord
Neapolitan chord
ninth chord
nonchord
notochord
pentachord
perfect chord
polychord
power chord
scare chord
seventh chord
slash chord
strike a chord
subchord
sus chord
suspended chord
tetrachord
touch a chord
trichord
Tristan chord
urochord
vocal chord
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: vətər
lang: Bengali
word: জ্যা
roman: jê
lang: Bulgarian
word: хо́рда
roman: hórda
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 直線 /直线
roman: zhíxiàn
lang: Czech
word: tětiva
lang: Danish
word: korde
lang: Dutch
word: koorde
lang: Esperanto
word: ŝnuro
lang: Finnish
word: jänne
lang: French
word: corde
lang: Galician
word: corda
lang: German
word: Sehne
lang: Greek
word: χορδή
roman: chordí
lang: Hindi
word: जीवा
roman: jīvā
lang: Hungarian
word: húr
lang: Indonesian
word: tali busur
lang: Italian
word: corda
lang: Japanese
word: 弦
roman: gen
lang: Kannada
word: ಜ್ಯಾ
roman: jyā
lang: Malay
word: perentas
lang: Māori
word: aho
lang: Mongolian
word: хөвч
roman: xövč
lang: Persian
word: وتر
roman: vatar
lang: Persian
word: زه
roman: zeh
lang: Polish
word: cięciwa
lang: Portuguese
word: corda
lang: Romanian
word: coardă
lang: Russian
word: хо́рда
roman: xórda
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: тетива
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tetiva
lang: Spanish
word: cuerda
lang: Spanish
word: subtensa
lang: Tagalog
word: bagting
lang: Turkish
word: kiriş
lang: Finnish
word: jänne
lang: Greek
word: χορδή
roman: chordí