cord

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1. cord - Noun

2. cord - Verb

Meaning

A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

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.

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.

Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.

See Chord.

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.

To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

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In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death. Germaine Greer

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. Joan Rivers

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. Robert Burton

If a man puts a cord around his neck, God will provide someone to pull it. Moroccan Proverb

When the cord is tightest it is nearest snapping. Danish Proverb

Love rules without a sword and binds without a cord. Puritan Proverb

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