Rick vs Cord - What's the difference?
rick | cord |
A stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching.
*(George Eliot) (1819-1880)
*:There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks , rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows;.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
(lb) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
(military, pejorative, and, demeaning) A brand new (naive ) boot camp inductee.
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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As nouns the difference between rick and cord
is that rick is a stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching while cord is 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.As verbs the difference between rick and cord
is that rick is to heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks while cord is to furnish with cords.As a proper noun Rick
is a diminutive=Richard given name, or sometimes of related names, such as {{term|Ricardo}}.rick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , Icelandic (m).Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* rickburnerEtymology 2
(etyl) wrickeEtymology 3
Abbreviated form from recruitNoun
(en noun)- No turning back now rick, you are property of the US government, no longer protected by the bill of rights; you follow the UCMJ now.
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