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corda — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • chord noun Three or more musical notes played together in harmony.
  • line noun A long, thin mark or stroke, straight or curved, on a surface.
  • rope noun A thick, strong cord made by twisting together fibers, strands, or wires.
  • string noun A thin cord or length of twisted thread, or a similar thin, flexible strand.

Senses

corda is used for these senses in English:

  • chord (rail) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
  • line A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  • line A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. [from mid-16th c.]
  • line A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
  • rope (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
  • rope (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
  • string A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.

chord — full definition

  1. noun Three or more musical notes played together in harmony.
  2. noun A straight line segment connecting two points on a curve.

line — full definition

  1. noun A long, thin mark or stroke, straight or curved, on a surface.
  2. noun A row or sequence of people, things, or words, one after another.
  3. verb To arrange people or things in a row, or to form such a row.
  4. verb To cover the inside surface of something with a layer of material.
  5. noun A telephone or other communication connection.

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