corded
[kawr-did]
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Origin of corded
cord
[kawrd]
- a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- Electricity. a small, flexible, insulated cable.
- a ribbed fabric, especially corduroy.
- a cordlike rib on the surface of cloth.
- any influence that binds or restrains: cord of marriage.
- Anatomy. a cordlike structure: the spinal cord; umbilical cord.
- a unit of volume used chiefly for fuel wood, now generally equal to 128 cu. ft. (3.6 cu. m), usually specified as 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet high (2.4 m × 1.2 m × 1.2 meters). Abbreviation: cd, cd.
- a hangman's rope.
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- to bind or fasten with a cord or cords.
- to pile or stack up (wood) in cords.
- to furnish with a cord.
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Origin of cord
1250–1300; Middle English coord(e) < Anglo-French, Old French corde < Latin chorda < Greek chordḗ gut; confused in part of its history with chord1
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Examples from the Web for corded
Contemporary Examples
One doctor told them to keep their cellphones off their bodies and use them only to text or with a corded headset for two months.
Historical Examples
He raised his corded, lean hand to the corded, lean throat as though he was choking.
Louisiana LouWilliam West Winter
It is corded and wired in the most exasperating way, but at last I get it open.
My Contemporaries In FictionDavid Christie Murray
He faltered, and his brow was corded with the labor of memory.
Instead of going up to him, she sat down on the corded trunk and began to sob.
FraternityJohn Galsworthy
The doctor started up and beat his thin, corded hand on the mantel.
The Squirrel-CageDorothy Canfield
corded
- bound or fastened with cord
- (of a fabric) ribbed
- (of muscles) standing out like cords
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cord
- string or thin rope made of several twisted strands
- a length of woven or twisted strands of silk, etc, sewn on clothing or used as a belt
- a ribbed fabric, esp corduroy
- any influence that binds or restrains
- US and Canadian a flexible insulated electric cable, used esp to connect appliances to mainsAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): flex
- anatomy any part resembling a string or ropethe spinal cord
- a unit of volume for measuring cut wood, equal to 128 cubic feet
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- to bind or furnish with a cord or cords
- to stack (wood) in cords
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Word Origin
C13: from Old French corde, from Latin chorda cord, from Greek khordē; see chord 1
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Word Origin and History for corded
cord
n.
c.1300, from Old French corde "rope, string, twist, cord," from Latin chorda "string of a musical instrument, cat-gut," from Greek khorde "string, catgut, chord, cord," from PIE root *ghere- "intestine" (see yarn). As a measure of wood (eight feet long, four feet high and wide) first recorded 1610s, so called because it was measured with a cord of rope.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
cord
- A long ropelike bodily structure, such as a nerve or tendon.
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