Word Finder - cord

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A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.

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A straight line between two points of a curve.

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A horizontal member of a truss.

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The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.

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An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.

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A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.

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The string of a musical instrument.

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A cord.

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An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.

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

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He looped some cord around his fingers.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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spermatic cord; spinal cord; umbilical cord; vocal cords

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To furnish with cords

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To tie or fasten with cords

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To flatten a book during binding

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To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

He held out a black cord with a red gem.

Cynthia looped the coils of the telephone cord around her finger.

She lifted her hand and the IV cord hung limply.

The silk cord was fastened to the brass gas lamp that centered the ceiling of the room, the other end tightly knotted about her soft white neck.

Then, with her back still turned toward him, she unfastened the drape cord and began tying the knot.

Now that we've severed that umbilical cord, why don't I show you around the woods a little?

Gabe took the necklace, looking at the two emeralds on the black leather-like cord.  He'd missed his necklace after eons wearing it.  He'd missed his mother and baby brother.  He squeezed them in his hand in the only hug he could give his dead family.

Her attention focused on a dangling cord.

The other supervisory lamp on the cord circuit is controlled in a similar manner by the subscriber who originated the call, and as that subscriber's telephone is off the hook when the peg is inserted, the lamp is not lighted at all until the subscriber replaces the receiver.

Who would have thought he would actually clip the umbilical cord?

By similar methods nature, unassisted, betrays herself but too often; in many instances - probably originating primarily in the nervous tissues themselves - the course of disease is observed to follow certain paths with remarkable consistency, as for instance in diseases of particular tracts of the spinal cord.

The suitcase contained three sets of under­wear and socks, all neatly folded and strapped in place with an elastic cord.

She pushed his crystal into the bottom of the container then strung Ashley's crystal onto the cord.

In all Chaetopods this system consists of cerebral ganglia connected by a circumoesophageal commissure with a ventral ganglionated cord.

The principal trunks consist of a dorsal vessel lying above the gut, and a ventral vessel below the gut but above the nervous cord.

We got the cord blood easily about 100 ml.

The Newborn size has a cutaway for the cord.

The mortality and morbidity associated with umbilical cord prolapse.

Eat and digest his or her own food since the circulatory relationship between mother and baby stops with the severance of the umbilical cord.

Long-term treatment of spinal cord injuries usually involves drug therapy, the use of neural prostheses, and rehabilitation.

The position of the reversing link is altered by means of a cord, passing over two pulleys, fixed respectively in the engine-house and on the derrick.

They are consecutively filled with nitroglycerin, and are lowered to the bottom of the well, one after the other, by a cord wound upon a reel, until the required number have been inserted.

The nervous system, composed of a ring and a ventral cord, retains its primitive connexion with the ectoderm.

The harsher measures which about that time began to be adopted towards his co-religionists in France are usually assigned as the motive of this step. He now devoted himself during six years to the production of lenses of enormous focal distance, which, mounted on high poles, and connected with the eye-piece by means of a cord, formed what were called "aerial telescopes."

The activity of the spinal cord is similarly depressed.

The one fact which the Lamarckians can produce in their favour is the account of experiments by Brown-Sequard, in which he produced epilepsy in guinea-pigs by section of the large nerves or spinal cord, and in the course of which he was led to believe that in a few rare instances the artificially produced epilepsy and mutilation of the nerves was transmitted.

The tore (torques), or cord of gold worn round the neck, was introduced from Gaul.

If a healthy spinal cord be hung up in spirit for a matter of six months or more, a glassy substance develops within it quite like true amyloid.

In future, in order to stop a fire, houses could be pulled down in case of need with an alderman's hook and cord.

The features by which the treesnakes are distinguished are still more developed in the whip-snakes (Dryophis), whose excessively slender body has been compared to the cord of a whip. Although arboreal, like the former, they are nocturnal in their habits, having a horizontal instead of a round pupil of the eye.

The nervous system consists of a ganglion or brain, which lies dorsally about the level of the junction of the pharynx and the stomach, a nerve ring and a segmented neutral cord.

All potassium salts if taken in large doses are cardiac depressants, they also depress the nervous system, especially the brain and spinal cord.

The word is particularly used of the cord of a bow, and of the stretched cords of gut and wire upon a musical instrument, the vibration of which.

The cyclonic inflows and anticyclonic outflows, so characteristic of the belt of westerly winds the world over, are very irregular in the Cord illeran region; but farther eastward they are typically developed by reason of the great extent of open country.

The round ligament is a cord of unstriped muscle which runs from the lateral angle of its own side of the uterus forward to the internal abdominal ring, and so through the inguinal canal to the upper part of the labium majus.

A little above the globus major a few scattered tubules are found in children in front of the cord; these form the rudimentary structure known as the organ of Giraldes or paradidymis.

But the influence of the alkaloid upon the spinal cord is very marked and characteristic. The reflex functions of the cord are entirely abolished, and it has been experimentally shown that this is due to a direct influence upon the cells in the anterior cornua.

Near the termination of a fatal case there is a paralysis of the sensory columns of the cord, so that general sensibility is lowered.

The alkaloid calabarine is, on the other hand, a stimulant of the motor and reflex functions of the cord, so that only the pure alkaloid physostigmine and not any preparation of Calabar bean itself should be used when it is desired to obtain this action.

Apart from the large class of brocaded cloths made in Jacquard looms there are innumerable simpler kinds, including stripes and checks of various descriptions, such as Swiss, Cord, Satin, Doriah stripes, &c. Mercerized cloths are of many kinds, as the mercerizing process can be applied to almost anything.

It excites the motor areas of the spinal cord and increases their reflex irritability.

Scarcely less important are its manufactures of ribbons, damask, cord, pianos and paper.

Ventilation is afforded at the ends, usually by tilting laths, operated by a cord.

There appears also to be a specific action of lowering the reflex excitability of the spinal cord.

There are no distinct ganglia, but ganglion cells are uniformly distributed along the ventral side of the cord.

Such discharges descend the nerve fibres of the spinal cord, and through the intermediation of various spinal nerve cells excite the respiratory muscles through their motor nerves.

Thus the tonus of the motor neurons of the spinal cord is much lessened by rupture of the great afferent root cells which normally play upon them.

Every efferent channel, after entrance in the central nervous system, subdivides; of its subdivisions some pass to efferent channels soon, others pass further and further within the cord and brain before they finally reach channels of outlet.

The nervous paths in the brain and cord, as they attain completion, Toes Ank,e Knee

In small therapeutic and in small toxic doses atropine stimulates the motor apparatus of the spinal cord, just as it stimulates the centres in the medulla oblongata.