cord
A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fibre (a rope, for example).
Example
“The burglar tied up the victim with a cord.”
Other meanings
Any quantity of such material when viewed as a mass or commodity.
“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 kind of
- line
Kinds of cord
- apron string
- gut
- fishing line
- log line
- perpendicular
- static line
- string
- thread
Related words
- bedcord
- cordectomy
- cordel
- corder
- cordgrass
- cordite
- cordlike
- cordmaker
- cordmaking
- cordocentesis
- cordopexy
- cordotomy
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "χορδή" (string of gut, the string of a lyre).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cord” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.