CORD

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Traducere în limba română

cord I. substantiv

1. coardă, funie subţire, şnur, sfoară groasă; frânghie.

◊ the silver cord was loosed firul vieţii lui s-a rupt; ne-a părăsit, a murit.

2. ştreang, laţ, şbilţ.

3. (anat.) ligament, coardă, cordon, tendon, nerv;

vocal cords coarde vocale;

spinal cord măduva spinării;

umbilical cord cordon ombilical.

4. (electr.) fir, şnur, cablu (pentru radio, lampă de masă etc.).

5. (fig.) fir, laţ, lanţ, legătură, strânsoare, influenţă, frână; plasă, mreje;

the cords of discipline frânele disciplinei;

the fourfold cords of evidence puterea înzecită a adevărului, forţa faptelor;

the cords of sin puterea răului, lanţul păcatelor;

the cords of wicked influenţa nefastă a celor ticăloşi, mrejele ticăloşiei.

6. plural stofă sau catifea reiată / cu şuviţe, pluş cord.

7. plural pantaloni de catifea reiată.

8. stânjen (măsură de volum pentru lemne de foc: 128 picioare cubice sau 3,63 m³);

to sell under the cords a vinde cu toptanul / cu ridicata.

cord II. verb tranzitiv

1. a lega cu o sfoară / frânghie / coardă etc. (v. I. 1.)

2. a pune în stivă, a stivui, a aşeza, a aranja (lemnele).

3. to cord up a lega fedeleş / burduf.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

AVMs can happen anywhere, but they are more common in the brain or spinal cord.

(Arteriovenous Malformations, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

It is but the eye to the cord, the cord to the shaft, and the shaft to the mark.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In releasing the lady, the cord had been slipped off her, but the knots with which it had been secured still remained.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This cord was the one which we had brought with us on to the plateau after we had used it for climbing the pinnacle.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Although further genetic analysis suggested the tissue-chip cells were in an early stage of fetal spinal cord formation, the researchers concluded that, overall, this is a promising start for the development of chips that mimic a patient’s nervous system.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all women of reproductive age take a daily supplement containing 400 to 800 micrograms of folic acid to reduce the risk of conceiving a child with a neural tube defect, a class of birth defects affecting the brain and spinal cord.

(Daily folic acid supplement may reduce risk of gestational diabetes, National Institutes of Health)

“Holmes,” I said, you have drawn a net round this man from which he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sempstresses took my measure as I lay on the ground, one standing at my neck, and another at my mid-leg, with a strong cord extended, that each held by the end, while a third measured the length of the cord with a rule of an inch long.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

The pirate leader had stood by the bulwarks, a cord round his arms, and two stout archers on either side.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Far above his head hung the few inches of red cord which were still attached to the wire.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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