chord

CEFRB2

/kɔːd/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Three or more musical notes played together.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A horizontal member of a truss.

Examples

  • Can you play that chord on the keyboard?

  • Every chord, every harmony, every discordant note fills me with immense joy.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A line segment between two points of a curve.

  2. A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.

  3. A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.

More examples

In context

  • That name struck a chord.

  • This note chords with that one.

  • He struck the opening chords of the passage; but this time Irene's voice was silent. Victor stopped in the middle of an arpeggio.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

He struck a single blank on the piano and the entire room fell silent with awe.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Variant of cord, with spelling alteration due to Latin chorda (“cord”), ultimately from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”). No relation to French accord (“chord”) and its derivations. Doublet of cuerda.