English Dictionary

cord

IPA（発音記号）

/kɔɹd/

名詞

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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.

日本語の意味

（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

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

彼女は夜明け前に薪の束を紐で縛った。

意味（1）

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.

The burglar tied up the victim with a cord.

意味（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.

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

(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, […]

意味（5）

(anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.

spermatic cord; spinal cord; umbilical cord; vocal cords

意味（6）

Dated form of chord: musical sense.

意味（7）

Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.

cords （ plural ）