Strap vs Cord - What's the difference?
strap | cord |
A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=7 A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
* (rfdate) Addison:
Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
# (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
# (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
(botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
(botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
A shoulder strap, see under shoulder.
(slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
To fasten or bind with a strap.
To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
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 strap and cord
is that strap is a long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like while cord is cord, line.As verbs the difference between strap and cord
is that strap is to beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash while cord is agree.strap
English
(wikipedia strap)Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}
- A lively cobbler that had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap .
Derived terms
* boot strap * shawl strap * stirrup strap * strapless * strap beamVerb
Derived terms
* strap on a pair * strap-onAnagrams
*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
