Cord vs Wite - What's the difference?
cord | wite |
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.
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
(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
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
(anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
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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(chiefly, Scotland) To blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse
* Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
To reproach, censure, mulct
To observe, keep, guard, preserve, protect
Blame, responsibility, guilt.
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*:And so by fortune the ship drave unto a castle, and was all to-riven, and destroyed the most part. So many lords and barons of this realm were displeased, for their children were so lost, and many put the wite on Merlin more than on Arthur; so what for dread and for love, they held their peace.
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*::And so by fortune the shyp drofe vnto a castel and was al to ryuen and destroyed the most part/ So many lordes and barons of this reame were displeasyd / for her children were so lost / and many put the wyte on Merlyn more than on Arthur / so what for drede and for loue they helde their pees
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Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.
(obsolete, or, poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
As nouns the difference between cord and wite
is that cord is cord, line while wite is blame, responsibility, guilt.As verbs the difference between cord and wite
is that cord is agree while wite is (chiefly|scotland) to blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse or wite can be (obsolete|or|poetic) to go, go away, depart, perish, vanish.cord
English
Noun
(en noun)- The burglar tied up the victim with a cord .
- He looped some cord around his fingers.
- 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
- The knots that tangle human creeds, / The wounding cords that bind and strain / The heart until it bleeds.
- 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.
- spermatic''' cord; '''spinal''' cord; '''umbilical''' cord; '''vocal cords
Synonyms
* (length of twisted strands) cable, twine * cable, flex * See alsoDerived terms
* cordless * extension cord * power cord * pull cord * spinal cord * umbilical cord * vocal cordsVerb
(en verb)wite
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , see below.Alternative forms
* wyteVerb
(wit)- As help me God, I shal þee nevere smyte! / Þat I have doon, it is þyself to wyte .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) , see below.Noun
(en noun)The Worm Ouroboros