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noun

Chord n.

The string of a musical instrument.

(Mus.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

(Geom.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

(Anat.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.

(Engin.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.

Accidental chords, Common chords, and Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal.

Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point.

Scale of chords. See Scale.

verb

Chord v. t. (past & past part. chorded; pres. part. chording) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune. "When Jubal struck the chorded shell." "Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp."

Chord v. i. (Mus.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

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"Chord" Quotes from Famous Books

... profounder type have been forgotten? It is the love of adventure. To what boy at school does not the doleful history lesson assume a more brilliant aspect when the adventures of Columbus are taken up? His interest is awakened, his imagination inspired, and he is delighted, all because again that chord in his nature has been struck—the ...

— A Fleece of Gold - Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece • Charles Stewart Given

... song, you go on and on to the end without thinking about it at all. It is the theme that carries you. Well, a human life is made like a song,—it carries itself along. You do not stop to think why. It can't stop in the middle, on one chord, for long. Yours now is resting, on a chord of happiness. But soon it will go on again. You want it to. Life in the Forest, though, isn't like that. Here it is music without any theme, like the music we dance to. Thrum, ...

— The Little House in the Fairy Wood • Ethel Cook Eliot

... to touch such chord be thine, Restore the ancient tragic line, And emulate the notes that wrung From the wild harp, which silent hung By silver Avon's holy shore, Till twice a hundred years roll'd o'er; When she, the bold Enchantress, came, With fearless hand ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... feel that allowances must be made for Viva Winthrop. He meant to marry her, to be a loyal and affectionate husband; but he had not loved her as women love to be loved, and she was conscious of the lacking chord. That she had been deceived and swindled, too, by some shameless scoundrel, and made to believe in her fiance's guilt, was another thing that was plain to him. She had probably been told some ...

— A War-Time Wooing - A Story • Charles King

... struck some chord previously active in the brain of Crawford. He glanced up at the string of articles on the line of twine, then stopped short in his walk, before the ...

— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford

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