Definitions for chord

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chord chord

Spelling: [kawrd]

IPA: /kɔrd/

Chord is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in chord (cdhor).

Definitions for chord

noun

1. a feeling or emotion:
2. Geometry. the line segment between two points on a given curve.
3. Engineering, Building Trades. a principal member of a truss extending from end to end, usually one of a pair of such members, more or less parallel and connected by a web composed of various compression and tension members.
4. Aeronautics. a straight line joining the trailing and leading edges of an airfoil section.
5. Anatomy. cord (def 6).
6. a combination of usually three or more musical tones sounded simultaneously.

verb (used with object)

1. to establish or play a chord or chords for (a particular harmony or song); harmonize or voice:

Origin of chord

1350-1400; Middle English Latin chorda Greek chordḗ gut, string; replacing cord in senses given

Examples for chord

The doctor's name struck a chord and Crawford dug deep until it focused.

When I hear a note of music, can I not at once strike its chord?

But it is based on the chord structure of what I played before it, except that it was based on a diminished scale.

The guitar is tuned to E, and an Eminor chord on a guitar just rings and rings forever.

We two were wholly out of chord, be the fault whose it might.

And Gervasio's words touched in my mind some chord of memory.

It does strike a chord when you see just how victimizing some of the media reports can be of Africa.

There were no longer any chord changes, and it was no longer a ballad.

And the chord structure, for those of you who play an instrument, is unexpected and worth checking out.

There was no chord in his nature that responded to such feelings; but he said nothing in reply.