Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: chord
IPA transcription: [k'ɔɹd]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: chord
    Meaning: a straight line connecting two points on a curve
  • Synonyms: chord
    Meaning: a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
Usage examples
  • Atherton had reached a chord in the man's consciousness.
  • "And you reason from this that Sullivan's 'Lost Chord' is a cure for cholera morbus, eh?" sneered the Doctor.
  • She laughed--a mirthless, bitter, contemptuous laugh, which was like a jarring chord in the music of her voice.
  • Who will not recall the memorable passage in the A flat Ballade, where the right hand alone takes up the dotted eighths after the sustained chord of the sixth of A flat?
  • At the second bar of the 'Lost Chord' the awful pain that was gradually gnawing away at his vitals seemed to lose its poignancy in the face of the greater suffering, and physical relief was instant.
  • The sociology professor struck a responsive chord in us: for since our earliest years we had wigwagged to each other as Boy Scouts, learned the finger alphabet of the deaf and dumb so that we might maintain communication during school hours, strung a telegraph wire between our two homes, admired Poe's "Gold Bug" together and devised boyish cipher codes in which to send each other postcards when chance separated us.