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chord (KORD) (noun)
1. At least three musical notes which are sounded simultaneously: The piano concerto ended with a resounding chord.
2. Emotional or prevailing responsiveness: Flora's comments struck a chord with her audience.
cord (KORD) (noun)
1. A long, thin piece of material that is usually thicker than a string but thinner than a rope: Beatrice wore the key to the house on a cord around her neck.
2. An electrical wire that is wrapped in a protective covering and used to connect a device to a power source: Candice and her family have to be careful that they don't get their feet entangled in the extension cord to their TV set and the lamp.
3. A part of the human body that is like a string or rope: The body has a specific cord for various parts of its anatomical structure; including, a nerve cord, a spinal cord, an umbilical cord (at birth), and vocal cords, to name just a few.
4. An amount of wood that has been cut for burning in a fireplace, a stove, etc.; and such a unit contains cut fuel wood, equal to a stack measuring 4 × 4 × 8 feet or 128 cubic feet (3.62 cubic meters): The truck delivered a cord of wood for our fireplace.
5. Clothing made of corduroy material: Virgil was wearing a black-cord jacket and dark blue cord pants.
cored (KORD) (verb)
To remove the innermost part of such things as fruit: Jodi cored the pears and apples before using them in her pies and cakes.

During our conversation, Lynda's cousin, who was wearing a green cord jacket decorated with gold braid cord, helped Iris as they cored the apples for their lunch.

Molly remarked that the piano trio she played with was practicing a unique chord for their upcoming concert.

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chordo-, chord-, cordo-, cord- +
(Greek: khorde, "gut string" [of a lyre]; used in an extended sense to mean "sinew, flexible rod-shaped organ, string, cord"; Latin: chorda, "related notes in music, string of a musical instrument, cat-gut" via Old French, corde, "rope, string, twist, cord")
funi-, fun-
(Latin: rope, cord)
lino-, lin-, line-
(Greek > Latin: line, thread, string, cord, net)
merinth-, merintho- +
(Greek: cord, line, string)
neuro-, neuron-, neurono-, neur-, neuri-, -neuroma, -neurotic, -neurosis, -neuron, -neural, -neuria
(Greek: nerve, nerve fiber, tendon, sinew, cord; nerve cell, nerve cells)
cor-, cord-, cour-
(Latin: heart)
ependymo-, eympend-
(Greek > Latin: membrane lining the central canal of the spinal cord and the ventricles of the brain including cells and cellular membranes)
glio-, gli-, glia-, -glia +
(Greek: glue; in medicine, the network of supporting tissue and fibers that nourishes nerve cells within the brain and spinal cord)
meningo-, mening-, meninge-, meningeo-, meningi-
(Greek: membranes enveloping the brain and spinal cord)
myelo-, myel-
(Greek: bone marrow; the spinal cord and medulla oblongata; the myelin sheath of nerve fibers)
placento-, placent-, placenta-
(Latin: flat cake; cakelike mass, especially the uterine organ that connects the mother to the child by way of the umbilical cord)
polio-
(Greek: gray; pertaining to the "gray matter" of the nervous system, brain, and the spinal cord)
spin-, spino-, spini-
(Latin: thorn, prickle; by extension, "backbone", the spinal cord)
umbili-, umbil-
(Latin: pertaining to the navel, umbilical cord; a protuberance or swelling; related to umbo, the boss [a convex elevation or knob] of a shield)
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spinal cord (s) (noun), spinal cords (pl)
A nerve tissue, thick, very light in color, and formed like a rope, which passes from the brain down through the spine: The spinal cord has nerves which branch off to all parts of a person's body.
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cord
A unit for measuring the volume of wood cut for fuel.

One cord equals 128 cubic feet (3.456 cubic meters), or a stack eight feet (2.4 meters) long, four feet (1.2 meters) wide, and four feet high.

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spinal cord
The major column of nerve tissue that is connected to the brain and that lies within the vertebral canal and from which the spinal nerves emerge.

Thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves originate in the spinal cord: eight cervical , twelve thoracic, 5 lumbar, five sacral, and one coccygeal.

The spinal cord and the brain constitute the central nervous system (CNS). The spinal cord consists of nerve fibers that transmit impulses to and from the brain.

Like the brain, the spinal cord is covered by three connective-tissue envelopes called the meninges. The space between the outer and middle envelopes is filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), a clear colorless fluid that cushions the spinal cord against strong and sudden shocks.

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