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cord

noun as in rope

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The firm claims that the prototype's supposedly functional dashboard display was powered by an extension cord snaking up from under the stage.

Drivers will have to find places to charge their vehicles, which is trickier than fueling up at a gas station, especially if you don’t live in a place where you can just run an extension cord from your house out to your car.

Yet retinoic acid signaling was thought to be essential for making a brain, nerve cord and other vital features.

Musk said he wants to eventually conduct a clinical trial on people who suffer from tetraplegia, a type of paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries.

From Fortune

An attached USB cord and charging cable will allow you to charge your phone on the go, but again, you’ll need to buy the battery pack separately.

The popular snack has also struck a cord with Paleo dieters, according to Lewis.

They hold signs depicting a fetus with a hanging umbilical cord.

He carried an extension cord in case he needed to recharge at one of his emergency spots.

She tried, says Schreiber, “to cut the umbilical cord to her parents mainly by way of entrance into high culture.”

Some doctors speculate they are generated in the spinal cord.

Strange to say, the silken cord yielded to the first pull, as if nothing had been wrong with it at all!

"You spoke of disgrace," she observed gently, swaying her fan before her by its silken cord.

He turned his cool regard upon Chief Inspector Kerry, twirling the cord of his monocle about one finger.

Stop and try a ride, Billy, urged Lance Darby, holding the cord of the tugging kite.

Taking the scissors from Violet's workbag, she cut the laundry bag carefully into two pieces, saving the cord for a clothesline.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cord, such as: fiber, string, twine, bond, connection, and cordage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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