What is the difference between twine and cord?
twine | cord | Synonyms |
A twist; a convolution.
* Milton
A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
The act of twining or winding round.
Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
:* The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine [...]
To weave together.
To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
* Shakespeare
To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
* Alexander Pope
To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
* Jonathan Swift
To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
(obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
(obsolete) To change the direction of.
(obsolete) To mingle; to mix.
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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Cord is a synonym of twine.
As nouns the difference between twine and cord
is that twine is a twist; a convolution 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 twine and cord
is that twine is to weave together while cord is to furnish with cords.twine
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* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) twine, twyne, twin, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(wikipedia twine) (en noun)- Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine .
- 1965 Pickett, Wilson , Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) twinen, twynen, from (etyl) *.Verb
(twin)- Let me twine / Mine arms about that body.
- Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine .
- As rivers, though they bend and twine , / Still to the sea their course incline.
- Many plants twine .
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Derived terms
* (l) * (l)cord
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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
