• (British) IPA: /kɔː(ɹ)d/
  • (America) enPR: kôrd, IPA: /kɔɹd/

chord (plural chords)

  3. (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
    1. (rail) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
  5. (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
  7. The string of a musical instrument.
  8. (anatomy) A cord.
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  • Russian: хо́рда

chord (chords, present participle chording; past and past participle chorded)

  1. (transitive) To write chords for.
  2. (music) To accord; to harmonize together.
    This note chords with that one.
    • When Jubal struck the chorded shell.
    • Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.

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