cord

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A slender length of flexible material usually made of twisted strands or fibers and used to bind, tie, connect, or support.
• noun An insulated flexible electric wire fitted with a plug or plugs.
• noun A hangman's rope.
• noun An influence, feeling, or force that binds or restrains; a bond or tie.
• noun Anatomy A long ropelike structure, such as a nerve or tendon.
• noun A raised rib on the surface of cloth.
• noun A fabric or cloth with such ribs.
• noun Pants made of corduroy.
• noun A unit of quantity for cut fuel wood, equal to a stack measuring 4 × 4 × 8 feet or 128 cubic feet (3.62 cubic meters).
• transitive verb To fasten or bind with a cord.
• transitive verb To furnish with a cord.
• transitive verb To pile (wood) in cords.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To bind with cord or rope; fasten with cords: as, to cord a trunk.
• To pile up, as wood or other material, for measurement and sale by the cord.
• In bookbinding, to tie (a book) firmly between two boards until it is dry, so as to insure perfect smoothness in the cover.
• To accord; harmonize; agree.
• To become hard and cord-like: noting a condition occasionally encountered in the blood-vessels.
• noun An imperfection on the surface of glass. See cordy.
• noun A string or small rope composed of several strands of thread or vegetable fiber, twisted or woven together.
• noun Something resembling a cord in form or function.
• noun A quantity of firewood or other material, originally measured with a cord or line; a pile containing 128 cubic feet, or a pile 8 feet long, 4 feet high, and 4 feet broad.
• noun A measure of length in several countries.
• noun A measure of land. In Brittany it was 73.6 English square yards.
• noun Figuratively, any influence which binds, restrains, draws, etc.: a frequent use of the term in Scripture: as, the cords of the wicked (Ps. cxxix. 4); the cords of his sins (Prov. v. 22); cords of vanity (Isa. v. 18); the cords of a man —that is, the bands or influence of love (Hos. xi. 4).
• noun A strong ribbed fustian; corduroy.
• noun In fancy weaving, the interval between two vertical lines of the design.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
• noun A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
• noun Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement.
• noun (Anat.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
• noun (Mus.), obsolete See Chord.
• noun wood for fuel cut to the length of four feet (when of full measure).
• transitive verb To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
• transitive verb To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• 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.
• noun 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.
• noun A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 x 4 x 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.
• noun See cords.
• noun Common misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
• verb To furnish with cords
• verb To tie or fasten with cords
• verb To flatten a book during binding
• verb To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a light insulated conductor for household use
• noun a unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet
• verb bind or tie with a cord
• noun a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton
• verb stack in cords
• noun a line made of twisted fibers or threads