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- Dictionarychord/kɔːd/
noun
- 1. a straight line joining the ends of an arc.
- 2. each of the two principal members of a truss: "a stabilizer chord"
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CHORD definition: 1. three or more musical notes played at the same time: 2. a straight line that joins the ends of…. Learn more.
: to play chords especially on a stringed instrument. transitive verb. 1. : to make chords on. 2. : harmonize. chord. 3 of 3. noun (2) 1.
noun. a feeling or emotion: His story struck a chord of pity in the listeners. Geometry. the line segment between two points on a given curve.
[a] Chords are the building blocks of harmony and form the harmonic foundation of a piece of music. They can be major, minor, diminished, augmented, or extended, depending on the intervals between the notes and their arrangement.
In music, a chord is three or more notes that combine harmoniously. You can play chords on a piano or guitar, but not on an instrument that plays one note at a time, like a trumpet. Chord comes from the French word for agreement, accord, so in music it means sounds that go together, or agree with each other. You can also use chord figuratively ...
a straight line that joins the ends of an arc (= a curved line that forms part of a circle) SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Examples from literature. (Definition of chord from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) chord | Intermediate English. noun [ C ]
1. To play chords on: chorded the piano. 2. To produce by playing musical chords; harmonize: chord a melody. [Alteration (influenced by chord, musical instrument string) of Middle English cord, from accord, agreement, from Old French acorde, from acorder, to agree; see accord .]
