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cord

I. cord¹ /kɔːd $ kɔːrd/ noun
[date : 1200-1300; Language : Old French; Origin : corde, from Latin chorda 'string', from Greek chorde]
1. [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
a piece of thick string or thin rope:
　 ▪ The robe was held at the waist by a cord.
　 ▪ He pulled explosives and some tangled cord from his bag.

2. cords
[PLURAL]trousers made from a thick strong cotton cloth with thin raised lines on it

3. [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
an electrical wire or wires with a protective covering, usually for connecting electrical equipment to the supply of electricity:
　 ▪ the phone cord
　 ▪ an extension cord

4. [COUNTABLE]
American English a specific quantity of wood cut for burning in a fire:
　 ▪ We use three cords of wood in a winter.
⇨ cut the cord at cut¹(40), ⇨ communication cord, spinal cord, umbilical cord, vocal cords

II. cord² adjective
cord clothes are made from corduroy:
　 ▪ green cord trousers

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
communication cord
cut the umbilical cord
▪ Teenage boys especially feel a need to cut the umbilical cord tying them to their mothers.
emergency cord
spinal cord
umbilical cord
▪ All modern popular music has an umbilical cord linking back to blues and R and B.
vocal cords
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
spinal
▪ Low levels of hybridization are also detectable in other regions of the spinal cord.
▪ Invasion of the spinal cord causes paralysis of the arms and legs or of the trunk.
▪ For example, it is absent in such diverse conditions as constipation, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and thoracic spinal cord injuries.
▪ Or worse: a disk slipped, or the spinal cord snapped?
▪ In the same way, nerve cells in the spinal cord show activity whenever a particular movement is made by the arm.
▪ The ball had entered his body in front and passed out near the spinal cord, paralyzing him in legs and arms.
▪ But Peter's back was broken and his spinal cord damaged.
▪ And the fifth layer sends signals to other deep and distant neural structures, sometimes even the spinal cord.
umbilical
▪ A search for a suitable bone marrow or umbilical cord donor for Garrett is under way.
▪ The doctor hunts for the umbilical cord on the ultra sound scanner to take a sample.
▪ When my daughter still had her umbilical cord, my husband worried about infection.
▪ Severing the umbilical cord between landlords and peasants vastly increased the proportion of the population for which the centre was directly responsible.
▪ The stump where the umbilical cord breaks after foaling is a potential route for pathogens into the foal's system.
▪ Discussion Immediate umbilical cord clamping deprives neonates of a significant volume of blood.
▪ The door hangs off its hinges, the cash register ripped from its electronic umbilical cord.
vocal
▪ In addition to the ordinary vocal cords, the cat possesses a second pair of structures called vestibular folds, or false vocal cords.
▪ Those corn-rows are murder on the vocal cords.
▪ When sounds are unvoiced, the vocal cords are relaxed to allow the air a completely free passage.
▪ Not surprising in that it no longer possessed vocal cords.
▪ No vibration is caused by the vocal cords because they are not being put into action.
▪ With an effort, she made them part, and then her vocal cords let her down by refusing to work.
▪ The false vocal cord theory is the most obvious and the simplest.
▪ It explains the otherwise puzzling presence of the second, or false, pair of vocal cords.
NOUN
clamping
▪ Most of the previous research into the timing of cord clamping has concentrated on babies born near term.
▪ We did not time onset of respiration relative to cord clamping but many infants in the regulated group were already crying.
▪ Discussion Immediate umbilical cord clamping deprives neonates of a significant volume of blood.
▪ We believe, however, that further study is needed before firm recommendations about umbilical cord clamping can be made.
communication
▪ The man opposite me yanks the communication cord, and we lurch to a halt.
▪ I came close to pulling the communication cord.
▪ Overhead is a communication cord, as in a train.
▪ And on the second train from Oxford they pulled the communication cord to try to avoid us.
emergency
▪ That coppery twang on the emergency cord that hangs tight in his gut.
▪ An officer allegedly pulled the emergency cord as a joke.
injury
▪ For example, it is absent in such diverse conditions as constipation, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and thoracic spinal cord injuries.
▪ With spinal cord injuries, recovery can be prolonged.
▪ Ten patients had been treated for prostate cancer and one had experienced a spinal cord injury.
nylon
▪ Push behind latches. 6 Hook up neckband on first row, push behind latches and remove waste and nylon cord.
▪ Replacing the nylon cord on the hood with shock cord would save the eyes getting a lashing in the wind.
VERB
cut
▪ The maternal bond had been cut with the umbilical cord - at birth.
▪ Boys in particular need to cut the umbilical cord.
▪ She would cut the cord that bound her to them cleanly and irrevocably.
▪ Before it could, I cut the cord and took it into the ante-room.
pull
▪ She pulled the white cord so tight it cut red weals into the white flesh.
▪ So as I moved toward the wall, I pulled the cord with me.
▪ I came close to pulling the communication cord.
▪ Chops responds, without pausing in his frantic pulling on the starter cord.
▪ And on the second train from Oxford they pulled the communication cord to try to avoid us.
▪ I stumbled back and sat down heavily on the plinth, then staggered upright and pulled my cords back up.
▪ When the shrine was full, Kalchu began to pull the cord of the big brass bell hanging above his head.
tie
▪ He poked his nose outside to see if he could tie off the cord.
▪ A pound and a quarter of C-4 explosive was tied with an explosive cord to wooden crates holding the rockets.
▪ After pulling up the curtain to the desired width, tie the cords neatly but do not cut them off.
use
▪ And who used different words. cords Sethe understood then but could neither recall nor repeat now.
wear
▪ Neither officer seems to wear cords on the M1889 field hat, identified by its lack of brass screen ventilators.
▪ He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots.
▪ Andy wore cords, shirt and jumper and body-warmer; a cap hung from the top of one of the nearby posts.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cut the (umbilical) cord
▪ Before it could, I cut the cord and took it into the ante-room.
▪ Boys in particular need to cut the umbilical cord.
▪ She would cut the cord that bound her to them cleanly and irrevocably.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her glasses hung around her neck on a silky cord.
▪ The phone cord is all tangled.
▪ Three cords of wood should last us all winter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Flooring should be non-committal: plain, functional cord fitted carpet, or rubber stud flooring.
▪ Invasion of the spinal cord causes paralysis of the arms and legs or of the trunk.
▪ See you know I set up the printer, the computer, even get a cord to connect them.
▪ She attached a cord and started wearing them around her neck.
▪ She pulled the white cord so tight it cut red weals into the white flesh.
▪ She says that he was hanging by his dressing gown cord from a banister.
▪ They receive messages from virtually every nerve in the human body via connections with the optic nerve and spinal cord.