cord

Definition:
1. A line made of twisted fibers or threads.
2. A unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet.
3. A light insulated conductor for household use.
4. A cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton.
5. Stack in cords.
6. Bind or tie with a cord.

Use 'cord' in a sentence:

• 1. Testing method for adhesion of rubber to steel cord.
• 2. Every Apple product has obsolescence built in, and if I lose my laptop's power cord, they charge me $80 for a new one.
• 3. MSCs were easily obtained from Wharton's jelly of human umbilical cord.
• 4. Some parents now are choosing to save the cord blood, have it frozen, locked away somewhere just in case it is useful to their child later in life.
• 5. If there is no wire, a cord will do.
• 6. The objective is to establish a model of spinal cord organotypic culture in vitroof Sprague Dawlay rat.
• 7. I will never forget all you've done for me, but it's time to cut the umbilical cord.
• 8. Repairs to the nervous system will start with optic nerves and, in time, the spinal cord.
• 9. A recent study found that the number of Americans with high-speed Internet at home today actually fell during the last two years, and 15% of people now consider themselves to be "cord-cutters".
• 10. They bound him down with cords.
• 11. There's a lot of interests in obtaining stem cells from the blood of the umbilical cord on birth.
• 12. Management and survival analysis of patients with spinal cord injury.
• 13. Reparies to the nervous system will start with optic nerves and, in time, the spinal cord.
• 14. Mary got up, much mystified, and found the cord.
• 15. McGillicuddy's hand went up to the communication cord, then paused, irresolute.
• 16. She wanted to scream, but her vocal cords seemed paralysed.
• 17. My wrist is all scraped now, so I must have pulled it through the cord.
• 18. A similar attachment has also been found to the spinal cord via the ligamentum nuchae.
• 19. I wear a safety cord all the time.
• 20. Further down the line here, if we looked in the adult brain or spinal cord and other regions, we'll find committed progenitor cells.
• 21. They can at least reach to the intumescentia of the spinal cord.
• 22. A New Method for Uniaxial Tension Test of Polyester Cord.
• 23. A player would pull the cord and release hands;
• 24. Discussion on the manufacturing Technology of Driving Cord used for Oil Pumping Machine.
• 25. Tack the cord around the cushion.
• 26. The door had been tied shut with a length of nylon cord.
• 27. Experimental study of spinal injury and recovery in tethered cord syndrome.
• 28. The death of a second parent is like severing an umbilical cord to our past.
• 29. The referendum will bring Puerto Rico one step closer to cutting the island's umbilical cord to the United States.
• 30. Cord held the reins while the stallion tugged and snorted.
• 31. After the cord was cut, each sister took turns with their brother.
• 32. Bamboo dragonfly has a helicopter top axis6 with a cord wound around it, with a horizontal blade sticking out from the axis.
• 33. He had bare feet, a T-shirt and cords on.
• 34. Corticosterone, progesterone, estradiol a nd deoxycorticosterone showed no effects on the glycine uptake in spinal cord synaptosomes.
• 35. There is a cord hanging from it.
• 36. A quick-thinking ticket inspector yanked an emergency cord.
• 37. The objective is to observe the co-existence of calbindin-D28k (CB) with parvalbumin (PV) in neurons of the anterior horn of the spinal cord in rats.
• 38. The river said, "Run first to the bride, and ask her for a silken cord to draw up the water."
• 39. He found its cord and yanked, the light went out.
• 40. He wound the cord round a wheel.
• 41. Cord Blood Stem Cells and Cardiovascular Replacement of Congenital Heart Disease.
• 42. Thickening and perivascular lymphocytic cuffing of cord blood vessels. H and E X250.
• 43. He always wears the blue cords.
• 44. The brain stem-spinal cord angle is much smaller in partial patients with platybasia and basilar invagination.
• 45. Bedrooms are fitted with alarm pull cords to alert the manager in an emergency.
• 46. Inflate your life jacket by pulling sharply on the cord.
• 47. Bind the ends of the cord together with thread.
• 48. Almost all sensory information from the trunk and limbs passes through the spinal cord.
• 49. The cytoarchitectonic organization of the cervical spinal cord of the tree shrew was studied with Nissl's stain method.
• 50. We used so many lights that we needed four extension cords.
• 51. He caught the thief with a cord but was surprised to find it was a boy.
• 52. He began to worry at the knot in the cord.
• 53. Our host ran a long extension cord out from the house and set up a screen and a projector.
• 54. He was killed because he ignored a warning to put stronger cords on his parachute.
• 55. Properties such as adhesion in the case of tire cords and dyeability in the case of carpet yarns can be affected by the surface composition of the fiber.