Synonyms of the word cord


CORDBIND - CLOTH - CONDUCTOR - CORDUROY - FABRIC - HEAP - LINE - MATERIAL - PILE - STACK - TEXTILE - TIE

cord

  • n. A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such…
  • n. A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled…
  • n. A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or…
  • n. (figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
  • n. (anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
  • n. Dated form of chord: musical sense.
  • n. Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
  • v. To furnish with cords.
  • v. To tie or fasten with cords.
  • v. To flatten a book during binding.
  • v. To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

bind

  • v. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
  • v. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
  • v. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
  • v. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
  • v. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
  • v. (transitive) To couple.
  • v. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other…
  • v. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or…
  • v. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
  • v. (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
  • v. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.
  • v. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
  • v. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method…
  • n. That which binds or ties.
  • n. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
  • n. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
  • n. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
  • n. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

cloth

  • n. (uncountable) A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
  • n. (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
  • n. (Can we verify([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +]) this sense?) A form of attire…
  • n. (in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.

conductor

  • n. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
  • n. (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation…
  • n. A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.
  • n. Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
  • n. (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed.
  • n. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
  • n. (architecture) A leader.

corduroy

  • n. A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
  • v. To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.

fabric

  • n. (archaic) structure, building.
  • n. (archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.
  • n. (archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship;…
  • n. The framework underlying a structure.
  • n. A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
  • n. (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
  • n. (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance.

heap

  • n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  • n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  • n. A great number or large quantity of things.
  • n. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  • n. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  • n. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  • n. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount.
  • v. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
  • v. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  • v. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

line

  • n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
  • n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  • n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  • n. Direction, path.
  • n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
  • n. A letter, a written form of communication.
  • n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
  • n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
  • n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  • n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  • n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
  • n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
  • n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  • n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  • n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
  • n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
  • n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  • n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
  • n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
  • n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
  • n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  • n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • n. A measure of length.
  • n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  • n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  • n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
  • n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
  • n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
  • n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  • n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
  • n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
  • v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  • v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
  • v. To form a line along.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
  • v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
  • v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  • n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
  • v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  • v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

material

  • adj. Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
  • adj. Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
  • adj. (law, accounting) Significant.
  • n. Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
  • n. Text written for a specific purpose.
  • n. A sample or specimens for study.
  • n. Cloth to be made into a garment.
  • n. A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.
  • n. Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
  • n. The substance that something is made or composed of.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.

pile

  • n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  • n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
  • n. A mass formed in layers.
  • n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  • n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
  • n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
  • n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
  • n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  • n. (figuratively) A list or league.
  • v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
  • v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  • v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
  • v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  • v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
  • n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
  • n. The head of an arrow or spear.
  • n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
  • n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
  • v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
  • n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
  • n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
  • n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

stack

  • n. (heading) A pile.
  • n. A smokestack.
  • n. (heading) In digital computing.
  • n. (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
  • n. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
  • n. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
  • n. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
  • n. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
  • n. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
  • n. (heading) In architecture.
  • n. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
  • n. (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
  • v. (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
  • v. (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
  • v. (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
  • v. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.

textile

  • n. (usually in the plural) Cloth produced from a fabric.
  • n. (naturism) A non-nudist.
  • adj. (naturism) Clothing compulsive.

tie

  • n. A knot; a fastening.
  • n. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
  • n. A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black…
  • n. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
  • n. A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which…
  • n. A strong connection between people or groups of people; a bond.
  • n. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
  • n. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together…
  • n. (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs…
  • n. (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
  • n. (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a…
  • n. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
  • n. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
  • n. (graph theory) connection between two vertices.
  • v. (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
  • v. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
  • v. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
  • v. (transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
  • v. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
  • v. (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

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