chord
English
Etymology
Variant of cord, with spelling alteration due to Latin chorda (“cord”), ultimately from Ancient Greek (Doric) χορδά (khordá), (Ionic) χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”)
Pronunciation
Noun
chord (plural chords)
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:
- He struck the opening chords of the passage; but this time Irene's voice was silent. Victor stopped in the middle of an arpeggio.
- (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve.
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- 2005, James Avery, Visual Studio hacks, page 99:
- Ctrl-K is the default first key for chords, but you can create chords using any keys that you want.
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- The string of a musical instrument.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
Derived terms
Translations
combination of three or more notes
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straight line
Verb
chord (third-person singular simple present chords, present participle chording, simple past and past participle chorded)
- (transitive) To write chords for.
- 2003, Dan Levenson, Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch
- This chording technique works well for learning any tune, but this is the only tune of the set that I will write out completely as a chorded version.
- 2003, Dan Levenson, Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch
- (music) To accord; to harmonize together.
- This note chords with that one.
- (transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
- Dryden
- When Jubal struck the chorded shell.
- Beecher
- Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.
- Dryden
Translations
to write chords for
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See also
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