cord
cord is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
- noun. A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
- noun. Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
- noun. Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
- noun. See Chord.
- transitive verb. To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
- transitive verb. To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
- past tense & past participle. of Core
- noun. a line made of twisted fibers or threads
"the bundle was tied with a cord"
- noun. a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton
- noun. a light insulated conductor for household use
- noun. a unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet
- verb. bind or tie with a cord
- verb. stack in cords
"cord firewood"
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Common word forms
cords, cordal, corded, corder, cording, cordless
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