Definitions

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

  • adjective Tied or bound with cords.
  • adjective Furnished with or made of cords.
  • adjective Ribbed or twilled.
  • adjective Stacked in cords.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bound, girded, or fastened with cords.
  • Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.
  • Made of cords; furnished with cords.
  • Ribbed or furrowed, as by cords: as, corded cloth; a corded pattern.
  • In heraldry, represented as bound about, or wound with cords, as the cross in the accompanying figure.

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

  • adjective Bound or fastened with cords.
  • adjective Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.
  • adjective obsolete Made of cords.
  • adjective Striped or ribbed with cords.
  • adjective (Her.) Bound about, or wound, with cords.

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

  • adjective Fitted with a cord.

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

  • adjective of textiles; having parallel raised lines

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Examples

  • Lancer pulled up short and made a shallow bow to the man, who wore an old but carefully-ironed white shirt with a buttoned collar much too large for him, from which his thin corded neck extended like a sunburnt plant stalk.

    The Captain's Hat 2009

  • Lancer pulled up short and made a shallow bow to the man, who wore an old but carefully-ironed white shirt with a buttoned collar much too large for him, from which his thin corded neck extended like a sunburnt plant stalk.

    The Captain's Hat 2009

  • Piqué pee-kay • Group of durable fabrics characterized by corded effects either warp-wise or filling-wise, most notably created with a waffle texture similar to that of a honeycomb weave.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • Piqué pee-kay • Group of durable fabrics characterized by corded effects either warp-wise or filling-wise, most notably created with a waffle texture similar to that of a honeycomb weave.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • Piqué pee-kay • Group of durable fabrics characterized by corded effects either warp-wise or filling-wise, most notably created with a waffle texture similar to that of a honeycomb weave.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • A "corded" breast may usually quite easily be cured, and the patient should be made perfectly easy in mind about it.

    Papers on Health John Kirk

  • This "corded" bed was constructed by running rope or cord from the head to the foot and then from side to side.

    Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

  • The portrait forming the centrepiece is like that on the values of 1868 though the medallion is enclosed within a "corded" circle instead of an ordinary plain line.

    The Stamps of Canada Bertram William Henry Poole 1918

  • I did all the usual checks, removing kit from the line and plugging a normal "corded" phone into the master socket.

    Cup Of Coffee 2010

  • I did all the usual checks, removing kit from the line and plugging a normal "corded" phone into the master socket.

    Coolsmartphone News 2010

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