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Chord   /kɔrd/   Listen
Chord

noun
1.
A straight line connecting two points on a curve.
2.
A combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together.
verb
(past & past part. chorded; pres. part. chording)
1.
Play chords on (a string instrument).
2.
Bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing.  Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize.



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"Chord" Quotes from Famous Books



... emotion, "I ain' narvous; but dat saw, a-cuttin' en grindin' thoo dat stick er timber, en moanin', en groanin,' en sweekin', kyars my 'memb'ance back ter ole times, en 'min's me er po' Sandy." The pathetic intonation with which he lengthened out the "po' Sandy" touched a responsive chord in ...
— The Conjure Woman • Charles W. Chesnutt
... powerful thrust the Nautilus's hull quivered like a resonating chord, and the ship sank steadily under the waters. Stationed in the lounge, the captain and I watched the needle swerving swiftly over the pressure gauge. Soon we had gone below the livable zone where most fish reside. Some of ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... class of emotions produces an augmented treasure of expressions; and language, gesture, and the imitative arts, become at once the representation and the medium, the pencil and the picture, the chisel and the statue, the chord and the harmony. The social sympathies, or those laws from which, as from its elements, society results, begin to develop themselves from the moment that two human beings coexist; the future is contained within the present, as the plant ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various
... und we vill try something you know vell. I shall then be able to judge both of your execution und your tone. There iss de chord. Ah! now you are ready? All right. Shall we try de 'Miserere' from 'Il Trovatore?' I see ...
— Dorothy's Triumph • Evelyn Raymond
... Montaigne as we please, even though that right includes the privilege of not reading every word of the famous Essays, and of only reverting—in our light return to them—to those aspects and qualities which strike an answering chord in ourselves. ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys


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