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A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.

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Source Word

cord

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kɔɹd/

Noun

countable uncountable figuratively dated form-of alt-of misspelling

Japanese Meaning

（複数の繊維が撚り合わされた）長くて細い、柔軟な紐。例えば、ロープとして利用される撚り合わされた糸の束を指す

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She used a cord to tie the bundle of firewood before dawn.

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彼女は夜明け前に薪の束を紐で縛った。

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Sense（1）

The burglar tied up the victim with a cord.

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Sense（2）

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.

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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.

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.

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(figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.

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, […]

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