cord

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fibre (a rope, for example).

   “The burglar tied up the victim with a cord.”

2. isim Any quantity of such material when viewed as a mass or commodity.

   “He looped some cord around his fingers.”

3. isim 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 ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
4. isim 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.

   “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; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.”

5. isim Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.

   “Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn, / Edged with sharp laughter, cuts atwain / The knots that tangle human creeds, / The wounding cords that bind and strain / The heart until it bleeds, […]”

6. isim Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.

   “spermatic cord; spinal cord; umbilical cord; vocal cords”

7. isim Dated form of chord.
8. isim Misspelling of chord, a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
9. fiil To furnish with cords.
10. fiil To tie or fasten with cords.
11. fiil To flatten a book during binding.
12. fiil To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.