cordとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English corde, from Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Doric Ancient Greek χορδά (khordá, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”) (compare Ionic χορδή (khordḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowel”)). More at yarn and hernia.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔɹd/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /kɔːd/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• 異形同音異義語: chord, cored (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger), cawed (in non-rhotic accents)

名詞

cord (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cords)

1. A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (不可算) such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.

   The burglar tied up the victim with a cord.

   He looped some cord around his fingers.

2. A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((米国用法) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
3. A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is—by the cord […]

4. (figurative) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
   • 1884, Alfred Tennyson, To -

     The knots that tangle human creeds, / The wounding cords that bind and strain / The heart until it bleeds.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Every detail of the house and garden was familiar; a thousand cords of memory and affection drew him thither; but a stronger counter-motive prevailed.

5. (anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.

   spermatic cord; spinal cord; umbilical cord; vocal cords

6. Dated form of chord: musical sense.
7. Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.

同意語

• (length of twisted strands): cable, twine
• (wires surrounded by an insulating coating, used to supply electricity): cable, flex
• See also Thesaurus:string

派生語

動詞

cord (三人称単数 現在形 cords, 現在分詞 cording, 過去形および過去分詞形 corded)

1. To furnish with cords
2. To tie or fasten with cords
3. To flatten a book during binding
4. To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.