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Cord vs Corduroy - What's the difference?

cord | corduroy |

As nouns the difference between cord and corduroy

is that cord is cord, line while corduroy is a heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.

As verbs the difference between cord and corduroy

is that cord is agree while corduroy is to make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.

cord

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.
    • The burglar tied up the victim with a cord .
    He looped some cord around his fingers.
  • A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
  • A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is—by the cord
  • (in plural'' cords ) ''See cords.
  • : a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
  • : musical sense.
  • (figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
  • * Tennyson
    • The knots that tangle human creeds, / The wounding cords that bind and strain / The heart until it bleeds.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
    • Every detail of the house and garden was familiar; a thousand cords of memory and affection drew him thither; but a stronger counter-motive prevailed.
  • (anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
    • spermatic''' cord; '''spinal''' cord; '''umbilical''' cord; '''vocal cords

    Synonyms

    * (length of twisted strands) cable, twine * cable, flex * See also

    Derived terms

    * cordless * extension cord * power cord * pull cord * spinal cord * umbilical cord * vocal cords

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with cords
  • To tie or fasten with cords
  • To flatten a book during binding
  • To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
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    corduroy

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia corduroy) (en noun)
  • A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
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    • Derived terms

    * corduroys * corduroy road

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
  • *1886 , Ulysses S. Grant,
  • *:The night was very dark and it rained heavily, the roads were so bad that the troops had to cut trees and corduroy the road a part of the way, to get through.
  • * 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, pp. 827-8:
    • But Sherman organized “pioneer battalions” of soldiers and freedmen [...] to cut saplings and trees to corduroy the roads, build bridges, and construct causeways.