Share this entry  Share this page   Saltos de línea: cor¦don
Pronunciación: /ˈkɔːd(ə)n  Definición de cordon en inglés:   1A
line or circle of police, soldiers, or guards preventing access
to or from an area or building: the crowd was halted in front of
the police cordon Más ejemplos en oraciones   • Following the
discovery, police threw a cordon round the area and set up a
24-hour guard to protect the site.   • Soldiers forming a cordon
around the police station became involved, and a wall was
demolished by a British tank as they struggled to ‘collect’ the
men, the MoD said. barrier, line, column, row, file, ranks,
chain, ring, circle; informal crocodile 2A fruit tree trained to
grow as a single stem. Example sentences   • Somebody recently
showed me five different varieties of apples on cordons (single
stems grown at 45 degrees to the ground) against a 4ft
featherboard fence.   • Vines are generally cordon or single
Guyot trained.   • Specimen half-standard fruit trees can be
grown as features in the lawn o