English Explanatory Dictionary

chord

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
  2. A line segment between two points of a curve.
  3. A horizontal member of a truss.
  4. A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
  5. The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
  6. An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
  7. A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
  8. The string of a musical instrument.
  9. A cord.
  10. An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
verb
  1. To write chords for.
  2. To accord; to harmonize together.
  3. To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

Pronunciation

/kɔːd/ kôrd /kɔɹd/ En-us-chord.ogg

Word forms

chord chords cord chording chorded

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.

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

Translations

Azerbaijani: vətər Bengali: জ্যা Bulgarian: хо́рда Chinese Mandarin: 直線 /直线 Czech: tětiva Danish: korde Dutch: koorde Esperanto: ŝnuro Finnish: jänne French: corde Galician: corda German: Sehne Greek: χορδή Hindi: जीवा Hungarian: húr Indonesian: tali busur Italian: corda Japanese: 弦 Kannada: ಜ್ಯಾ Malay: perentas Māori: aho Mongolian: хөвч Persian: وتر Persian: زه Polish: cięciwa Portuguese: corda Romanian: coardă Russian: хо́рда Serbo-Croatian: тетива Serbo-Croatian: tetiva Spanish: cuerda Spanish: subtensa Tagalog: bagting Turkish: kiriş
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