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noun kɔːdkɔrd A group of (typically three or more) notes sounded together, as a basis of harmony. 和弦，和音 the triumphal opening chords 欢庆胜利的开场和弦。 G大调和弦。 Example sentencesExamples - The bitonal opening of the quartet is arresting, with first violin playing the opening theme in C# over a drone chord of C major in the three accompanying instruments.
- From the tramping funeral rhythm of the opening movement to the ominous major - minor chords of the finale, the symphony offers precious little respite from its tragic purpose.
- The opening chords of the Adagio Sostenuto were finely poised and imbued with spacious eloquence.
- Harmonically the second half of the score tends to be built on rich static chords and pedal notes, which balance the structure after the energetic first half.
- The first piece is an intense Prélude whose stabbing chords and mournful melodies sound like the work of an already mature composer.
- As music is about tunes, chords, and harmonies, not notes per se, so chemistry is about compounds and molecules, not elements.
- Rather than the standard barrage of bass and major barre chords, The Banshees offered a sound that was expansive and broad, yet no less claustrophobic and tense than any of their peers.
- The first piece, ‘After the Rain,’ is an easy piece with a duet that adds major ninth and seventh chords, making a nice ballad.
- The mystery of the sonata's opening chords has rarely been so magical!
- The top note of the chord identifies major, while the middle note identifies minor.
- The opening cascade of chords in the Schumann concerto, so treacherous to play, does not lend itself well to simplifying.
- They would then have to try and piece together how the tune may have sounded, based on the chords and on other bits of sheet music which they might have come across while clearing out dusty attics.
- The main difficulty of the second section is the pages of interlocking octaves, chords and single notes covering the entire range of the keyboard.
- Instead he supplements the seven notes of Beethoven's chord with five more of his own to make a 12-note row.
- The virtuoso tour de force begins with a flourish, the piano arpeggios answered by bold chords in the woodwind trio.
- As the opening chords came out it sounded like I was playing them at half the usual pace.
- From the stark opening chords to the unsettling harmonies of the Adagio, the orchestra is assured.
- Prokofiev's daunting cluster chords and rapid fire pianistic flourishes held no terrors for her.
- In the Polonaise, Gourari raps out the opening chords defiantly, and the main melody is shaped with both arrogance and tenderness.
- There is, from the opening chords, a sense of hearing forbidden sounds, of entering into a spirit of resistance against the homogenisers of art.
verb kɔːdkɔrd [no object]usually as noun chordingPlay, sing, or arrange notes in chords. 以和弦演奏（或歌唱、谱曲） his chording makes an exhilarating accompaniment to the melody Example sentencesExamples - The show's theme song is elegantly reworked, and Stokin ’, chorded by Jarrett and Tyner, builds into a driving solo.
- Guerra's not afraid to actually play the guitar conventionally either, and his dolorous, hesitant chording is heard to beautiful effect on the gorgeous closing track.
- In addition to lots of bluesy riff bashing, hard rock power chording and screaming bent-note guitar solos, there are elements of pop, Celtic, Indian, folk, and 20th century classical music that run throughout it.
- Subverting the derivative subterranean drift of the rest of the album, Smith allows dissonant chording and mechanical clanks to disrupt his serene drones.
- Donaldson's lucid chording inspires a sweetly poignant reading of ‘Lonely Woman’, while the opening of ‘Peace’ features a meltingly gorgeous statement on alto, accompanied only by Dave Green's ever thoughtful bass.
- After a bit of jazz-funk guitar chording releases control, the ensemble breaks into a mild freakout held in place with rapid snare work.
- Havard Wiik's piano is crucial throughout; his spare, unfussy chording recalls the economy of Monk or Herbie Nichols, while his solos are logical, melodic and direct.
- Carter's pizzicato chording shadows Dolphys' statement of the melody before the leader lets rip with a solo crammed with trills, soulful cries and mercurial bop runs.
- Notes seem to flow from the bell rather than being squeezed, and Lovano seasons everything he does with liberal (yet equal amounts) of soul and intellect as he curls his tenor round Frisell's spectral chording.
- Abbuehl's own writing is equally strong; the opening ‘Yes is a Pleasant Country’ is simply gorgeous; nothing extraneous, every note placed with unforced precision over plangent piano chording.
- There is no mistaking the lightly dramatic chording and rolling bass lines that would become so familiar to a nation as it absorbed the Charlie Brown specials - especially the '65 Christmas show - into its collective bloodstream.
- If you like your hard rock randy, riotous, and reeking with basic chording, you'll truly enjoy this journey down the AM / FM Memorial Highway.
- Davis sprays ripples of Wurlitzer type electric piano over Favors and DeJohnette's warm, funk tinged swing or lays down plangent, rich chording on acoustic piano.
- Worse, the ensemble has loosened a great deal in matters of attack, chording, and instrumental blend, although that might have been due to the vagaries of the moment, unfamiliar hall acoustics, jet lag, or whatever.
- Most impressive was her command over simultaneously singing complex vocal lines while maintaining some tricky syncopations and chording in her piano parts.
- Tony plays these super simplistic lines over some generic guitar chording, and all the action is provided by the sequencers.
- That tune touches on Evans a great deal in its chording and harmonies, and Reilly also has much of Evans's instinct for constantly relaunching solos from new melodic locations, so the music always conveys a sense of movement and dynamism.
- Though I suspect Vaananen's instrument has more prosaic origins, he extracts a magical sound from it, from staccato guitar like chording to bell-like swirls.
- Tyner's limpid chording is economical, percussive and sleekly propulsive; on the album's only ballad, Mal Waldron's ‘Soul Eyes’ he takes a short but delicate solo sandwiched between the leader's passionate statements.
- The weird piano chording beneath the chorus of ‘Cool Boots’ help make the song especially unshakeable, and hippie Trekkie lyrics aside, the song is revealing of how the Automato formula is not without its potential.
Derivativesadjective All pieces are written in a melody and accompaniment style, with the right hand playing the melody and the left hand playing chordal figures or arpeggiations. Example sentencesExamples - Sitting in stark contrast, the Scherzo follows with its bold chordal character, leading to the finale which accelerates to a presto before drawing to a close.
- No. 9 in F Major / Allegro - A chordal study with the primary melody first presented in legato form and then altered to staccato.
- However, when the chordal melody is doubled in both hands, the left-hand part can be difficult to navigate cleanly.
- For the uninitiated, Hunter plays a customised 8 string instrument which allows him to play bass lines along with his nifty chordal and solo work.
OriginMiddle English cord, from accord. The spelling change in the 18th century was due to confusion with chord2. The original sense was 'agreement, reconciliation', later 'a musical concord or harmonious sound'; the current sense dates from the mid 18th century. The sense of a group of musical notes was originally spelt cord and was a shortening of accord (Middle English) in the sense ‘bring into harmony’, which came from Latin accordere literally ‘to bring to heart’. The accordion (mid 19th century) ultimately gets its name from the same source. The sort of chord found in mathematics is also a respelling of cord, but this time in the sense ‘rope’. This was a Middle English word from Latin chorda, which came in turn from Greek khorde ‘gut, string of a musical instrument’. The spellings of both chords was changed to be more like their classical sources.
Rhymesaboard, abroad, accord, afford, applaud, award, bawd, board, broad, Claude, cord, ford, fraud, gaud, Gawd, hoard, horde, laud, lord, maraud, milord, sward, sword, toward, unawed, unexplored, unrestored, ward noun kɔːdkɔrd 1Mathematics
A straight line joining the ends of an arc. 〔数〕弦 Example sentencesExamples - He found the length of an arc of the cycloid using an exhaustion proof based on dissections to reduce the problem to summing segments of chords of a circle which are in geometric progression.
- De triangulis is in five books, the first of which gives the basic definitions: quantity, ratio, equality, circles, arcs, chords, and the sine function.
- Madhava also gave a table of almost accurate values of half-sine chords for twenty-four arcs drawn at equal intervals in a quarter of a given circle.
- The angle at the centre of a circle is twice the angle at the circumference from the same chord.
- He wrote on the computation of sines and chords.
- 1.1Aeronautics The width of an aerofoil from leading to trailing edge.
〔航空〕翼弦 Example sentencesExamples - The chord varied from 170 inches at the root to 68 inches at the tip.
- Since the gear had a shorter strut, it could fold aft and retract within the chord of the wing.
- The long span, short chord, NLF wing is in its element at tall altitudes and manages to deliver good cruise two miles above the sea.
- To handle the extra power at high altitude, the Columbia 400 incorporates a larger rudder in both chord and span, along with a ventral fin beneath the empennage.
- The 0-52 was not a bad looking aircraft its rotund fuselage being offset by a narrow chord wing with a single strut.
2Engineering
Each of the two principal members of a truss. 〔工程〕弦杆，桁弦 Example sentencesExamples - The roof is spanned by a series of curved trusses supporting secondary cleated frames that allow the roof plane to sit back from the upper chord of the truss.
- On a practical level, the trusses also provide the framework for the second floor, which is suspended from the bottom chords of the trusses.
- The radiant barrier is most often attached near the roof, to the bottom surface of the attic truss chords or rafter framing.
- The outer wall is attached to the truss upper chord; the inner wall to the bottom chord.
- The truss chords were fabricated from rolled tee sections ranging in size from 16.5 by 84.5 in.
3Anatomy
脊髓。 variant spelling of cord Example sentencesExamples - It can affect the nervous system in any place, in the brain or the spinal chord.
- The next step is to encourage those fibres to grow into the cell, and out of the cell into the spinal chord, by using a combination of drugs.
- The effect of the chemicals in the bean is to cause a powerful sedative action on the spinal chord which brings on paralysis of the lower limbs and death by asphyxia, and in larger doses by paralysis of the heart.
- Although the actor played down his condition at the time, claiming he had ruptured disc, he has now confessed he had a torn dura mater, a membrane which protects the spinal chord.
- In severe cases, one or more vertebrae may be missing, exposing the spinal chord (part of the nervous system that transmits signals from the nerve endings to the brain).
4literary A string on a harp or other instrument. 〈诗/文〉（竖琴等）弦 Example sentencesExamples - Her fingers began to lightly touch the delicate chords of the instrument and with just a mere stroke; her voice began to accompany the melodic beat.
- Her agile fingers began working like mad as they strung various wires and chords expertly through the holes.
- She found her place beside the harpsichord; she touched the chords most gently, and she sung the songs of Israel.
- The guests' voices faded, as she began to caress the chords of the instrument and raised her soft voice.
- If you grow long finger nails on the hand that fingers the chords, your chord changes will sound awkward, scratchy, sketchy, boring and muted.
UsageIn modern English there are two words spelled chord: the first is the musical term ‘a group of notes sounded together’, and the second is a technical term in mathematics, aeronautics, and engineering. Cord meaning ‘string or rope made from twisted strands’ is etymologically related to the second chord but is now regarded as a distinct word. The anatomical term generally uses the spelling cord (as in spinal cord and vocal cord), although chord is an acceptable variant Phrasesstrike (or touch) a chord Cause someone to feel sympathy, emotion, or enthusiasm. the issue of food safety strikes a chord with almost everyone 食品安全的问题几乎触动每个人的心弦。 Example sentencesExamples - I think it strikes a chord because it reflects the authors' enthusiasm and passion for their pursuits, however various, and their love of exploration and learning.
- His writing was funny and touched a chord with millions of people.
- The reaction has been mixed, but when an organisation like the Consumers' Association supports it, you know that it is touching a chord with the ordinary people of the country.
- Sunitha touched a chord when she said, ‘This is a journey for evoking generosity, hope and happiness.’
- I feel women directors bring a refreshingly emotional approach to films, which strikes a chord with the masses.
- It touches a chord somewhere and people think it's great fun.
- Her enthusiasm apparently strikes a chord as more and more women become involved in a formerly forbidden athletic arena.
- Ang Lee's martial arts romance - a tale of thwarted love and tortured honour among warriors in Han-dynasty China - has touched a chord with film-goers on both sides of the Atlantic.
- But there has to be something about the character that strikes a chord in you emotionally.
- Spear claims he is only making music about what he knows and if that touches a chord in his listeners, so be it.
strike (or touch) the right chord Skilfully appeal to or arouse a particular emotion in others. 感染（某人）；触动 Dickens knew how to strike the right chord in the hearts of his readers 狄更斯知道如何感染读者。 Example sentencesExamples - There were speeches, elocution competition on emulating the qualities of Chacha Nehru - but the message seems not to have struck the right chord.
- While undoubtedly home to brilliant engineers, the Canadian Space Agency doesn't seem to strike the right chord with the public.
- Adding music and dance to the game Twister struck the right chord with music-mad youngsters and parents who would rather see calories burned than retinas.
- She seems to have struck the right chord with her dynamic vocals, Cinderella story and effervescent personality.
- Kumar knows he's struck the right chord post 9/11 and said that his film was all about peace.
- Did he strike the right chord, do you think, Karen?
- Her tone struck the right chord just a day after she trounced the Prince in a match race between their yachts on beautiful Copenhagen Harbour.
- The simplicity and sincerity of the Toda song did indeed touch the right chord in the visitors.
- The comic clowning, performed before an international audience, seemed to strike the right chord and the show duly won the top prize.
- Again, Cornwell has struck the right chord with her surrounding characters, who have been in Scarpetta's life since the beginning of the series.
OriginMid 16th century (in the anatomical sense): a later spelling (influenced by Latin chorda 'rope') of cord. nounkôrdkɔrd A group of (typically three or more) notes sounded together, as a basis of harmony. 和弦，和音 the triumphal opening chords 欢庆胜利的开场和弦。 G大调和弦。 Example sentencesExamples - From the tramping funeral rhythm of the opening movement to the ominous major - minor chords of the finale, the symphony offers precious little respite from its tragic purpose.
- Harmonically the second half of the score tends to be built on rich static chords and pedal notes, which balance the structure after the energetic first half.
- Instead he supplements the seven notes of Beethoven's chord with five more of his own to make a 12-note row.
- They would then have to try and piece together how the tune may have sounded, based on the chords and on other bits of sheet music which they might have come across while clearing out dusty attics.
- The mystery of the sonata's opening chords has rarely been so magical!
- The first piece, ‘After the Rain,’ is an easy piece with a duet that adds major ninth and seventh chords, making a nice ballad.
- In the Polonaise, Gourari raps out the opening chords defiantly, and the main melody is shaped with both arrogance and tenderness.
- As the opening chords came out it sounded like I was playing them at half the usual pace.
- The opening cascade of chords in the Schumann concerto, so treacherous to play, does not lend itself well to simplifying.
- As music is about tunes, chords, and harmonies, not notes per se, so chemistry is about compounds and molecules, not elements.
- The bitonal opening of the quartet is arresting, with first violin playing the opening theme in C# over a drone chord of C major in the three accompanying instruments.
- Rather than the standard barrage of bass and major barre chords, The Banshees offered a sound that was expansive and broad, yet no less claustrophobic and tense than any of their peers.
- The opening chords of the Adagio Sostenuto were finely poised and imbued with spacious eloquence.
- The virtuoso tour de force begins with a flourish, the piano arpeggios answered by bold chords in the woodwind trio.
- The main difficulty of the second section is the pages of interlocking octaves, chords and single notes covering the entire range of the keyboard.
- The first piece is an intense Prélude whose stabbing chords and mournful melodies sound like the work of an already mature composer.
- From the stark opening chords to the unsettling harmonies of the Adagio, the orchestra is assured.
- Prokofiev's daunting cluster chords and rapid fire pianistic flourishes held no terrors for her.
- There is, from the opening chords, a sense of hearing forbidden sounds, of entering into a spirit of resistance against the homogenisers of art.
- The top note of the chord identifies major, while the middle note identifies minor.
verbkôrdkɔrd [no object]usually as noun chordingPlay, sing, or arrange notes in chords. 以和弦演奏（或歌唱、谱曲） Example sentencesExamples - Worse, the ensemble has loosened a great deal in matters of attack, chording, and instrumental blend, although that might have been due to the vagaries of the moment, unfamiliar hall acoustics, jet lag, or whatever.
- Guerra's not afraid to actually play the guitar conventionally either, and his dolorous, hesitant chording is heard to beautiful effect on the gorgeous closing track.
- Abbuehl's own writing is equally strong; the opening ‘Yes is a Pleasant Country’ is simply gorgeous; nothing extraneous, every note placed with unforced precision over plangent piano chording.
- Davis sprays ripples of Wurlitzer type electric piano over Favors and DeJohnette's warm, funk tinged swing or lays down plangent, rich chording on acoustic piano.
- Subverting the derivative subterranean drift of the rest of the album, Smith allows dissonant chording and mechanical clanks to disrupt his serene drones.
- Donaldson's lucid chording inspires a sweetly poignant reading of ‘Lonely Woman’, while the opening of ‘Peace’ features a meltingly gorgeous statement on alto, accompanied only by Dave Green's ever thoughtful bass.
- Though I suspect Vaananen's instrument has more prosaic origins, he extracts a magical sound from it, from staccato guitar like chording to bell-like swirls.
- Carter's pizzicato chording shadows Dolphys' statement of the melody before the leader lets rip with a solo crammed with trills, soulful cries and mercurial bop runs.
- Tyner's limpid chording is economical, percussive and sleekly propulsive; on the album's only ballad, Mal Waldron's ‘Soul Eyes’ he takes a short but delicate solo sandwiched between the leader's passionate statements.
- The show's theme song is elegantly reworked, and Stokin ’, chorded by Jarrett and Tyner, builds into a driving solo.
- After a bit of jazz-funk guitar chording releases control, the ensemble breaks into a mild freakout held in place with rapid snare work.
- That tune touches on Evans a great deal in its chording and harmonies, and Reilly also has much of Evans's instinct for constantly relaunching solos from new melodic locations, so the music always conveys a sense of movement and dynamism.
- Notes seem to flow from the bell rather than being squeezed, and Lovano seasons everything he does with liberal (yet equal amounts) of soul and intellect as he curls his tenor round Frisell's spectral chording.
- In addition to lots of bluesy riff bashing, hard rock power chording and screaming bent-note guitar solos, there are elements of pop, Celtic, Indian, folk, and 20th century classical music that run throughout it.
- The weird piano chording beneath the chorus of ‘Cool Boots’ help make the song especially unshakeable, and hippie Trekkie lyrics aside, the song is revealing of how the Automato formula is not without its potential.
- If you like your hard rock randy, riotous, and reeking with basic chording, you'll truly enjoy this journey down the AM / FM Memorial Highway.
- Havard Wiik's piano is crucial throughout; his spare, unfussy chording recalls the economy of Monk or Herbie Nichols, while his solos are logical, melodic and direct.
- There is no mistaking the lightly dramatic chording and rolling bass lines that would become so familiar to a nation as it absorbed the Charlie Brown specials - especially the '65 Christmas show - into its collective bloodstream.
- Tony plays these super simplistic lines over some generic guitar chording, and all the action is provided by the sequencers.
- Most impressive was her command over simultaneously singing complex vocal lines while maintaining some tricky syncopations and chording in her piano parts.
OriginMiddle English cord, from accord. The spelling change in the 18th century was due to confusion with chord. The original sense was ‘agreement, reconciliation’, later ‘a musical concord or harmonious sound’; the current sense dates from the mid 18th century. nounkôrdkɔrd 1Mathematics
A straight line joining the ends of an arc. 〔数〕弦 Example sentencesExamples - De triangulis is in five books, the first of which gives the basic definitions: quantity, ratio, equality, circles, arcs, chords, and the sine function.
- He wrote on the computation of sines and chords.
- The angle at the centre of a circle is twice the angle at the circumference from the same chord.
- He found the length of an arc of the cycloid using an exhaustion proof based on dissections to reduce the problem to summing segments of chords of a circle which are in geometric progression.
- Madhava also gave a table of almost accurate values of half-sine chords for twenty-four arcs drawn at equal intervals in a quarter of a given circle.
- 1.1Aeronautics The width of an airfoil from leading to trailing edge.
〔航空〕翼弦 Example sentencesExamples - The long span, short chord, NLF wing is in its element at tall altitudes and manages to deliver good cruise two miles above the sea.
- The chord varied from 170 inches at the root to 68 inches at the tip.
- The 0-52 was not a bad looking aircraft its rotund fuselage being offset by a narrow chord wing with a single strut.
- To handle the extra power at high altitude, the Columbia 400 incorporates a larger rudder in both chord and span, along with a ventral fin beneath the empennage.
- Since the gear had a shorter strut, it could fold aft and retract within the chord of the wing.
2Engineering
Each of the two principal members of a truss. 〔工程〕弦杆，桁弦 Example sentencesExamples - The outer wall is attached to the truss upper chord; the inner wall to the bottom chord.
- The truss chords were fabricated from rolled tee sections ranging in size from 16.5 by 84.5 in.
- On a practical level, the trusses also provide the framework for the second floor, which is suspended from the bottom chords of the trusses.
- The radiant barrier is most often attached near the roof, to the bottom surface of the attic truss chords or rafter framing.
- The roof is spanned by a series of curved trusses supporting secondary cleated frames that allow the roof plane to sit back from the upper chord of the truss.
3Anatomy
脊髓。 variant spelling of cord Example sentencesExamples - The effect of the chemicals in the bean is to cause a powerful sedative action on the spinal chord which brings on paralysis of the lower limbs and death by asphyxia, and in larger doses by paralysis of the heart.
- In severe cases, one or more vertebrae may be missing, exposing the spinal chord (part of the nervous system that transmits signals from the nerve endings to the brain).
- The next step is to encourage those fibres to grow into the cell, and out of the cell into the spinal chord, by using a combination of drugs.
- It can affect the nervous system in any place, in the brain or the spinal chord.
- Although the actor played down his condition at the time, claiming he had ruptured disc, he has now confessed he had a torn dura mater, a membrane which protects the spinal chord.
4literary A string on a harp or other instrument. 〈诗/文〉（竖琴等）弦 Example sentencesExamples - Her agile fingers began working like mad as they strung various wires and chords expertly through the holes.
- If you grow long finger nails on the hand that fingers the chords, your chord changes will sound awkward, scratchy, sketchy, boring and muted.
- She found her place beside the harpsichord; she touched the chords most gently, and she sung the songs of Israel.
- Her fingers began to lightly touch the delicate chords of the instrument and with just a mere stroke; her voice began to accompany the melodic beat.
- The guests' voices faded, as she began to caress the chords of the instrument and raised her soft voice.
UsageIn modern English there are two words spelled chord: the first is the musical term meaning ‘a group of notes sounded together,’ and the second is a technical term in mathematics, aeronautics, and engineering. Cord meaning ‘string or rope made from twisted strands’ is etymologically related to the second chord, but is now regarded as a distinct word. The anatomical term generally uses the spelling cord (as in spinal cord and vocal cord), although chord is an acceptable variant Phrasesstrike (or touch) a chord Affect or stir someone's emotions. 触动某人的心弦 the issue of food safety strikes a chord with almost everyone 食品安全的问题几乎触动每个人的心弦。 Example sentencesExamples - Sunitha touched a chord when she said, ‘This is a journey for evoking generosity, hope and happiness.’
- I think it strikes a chord because it reflects the authors' enthusiasm and passion for their pursuits, however various, and their love of exploration and learning.
- Her enthusiasm apparently strikes a chord as more and more women become involved in a formerly forbidden athletic arena.
- It touches a chord somewhere and people think it's great fun.
- His writing was funny and touched a chord with millions of people.
- I feel women directors bring a refreshingly emotional approach to films, which strikes a chord with the masses.
- But there has to be something about the character that strikes a chord in you emotionally.
- Spear claims he is only making music about what he knows and if that touches a chord in his listeners, so be it.
- Ang Lee's martial arts romance - a tale of thwarted love and tortured honour among warriors in Han-dynasty China - has touched a chord with film-goers on both sides of the Atlantic.
- The reaction has been mixed, but when an organisation like the Consumers' Association supports it, you know that it is touching a chord with the ordinary people of the country.
strike (or touch) the right chord Skillfully appeal to or arouse a particular emotion in others. 感染（某人）；触动 Dickens knew how to strike the right chord in the hearts of his readers 狄更斯知道如何感染读者。 Example sentencesExamples - The simplicity and sincerity of the Toda song did indeed touch the right chord in the visitors.
- Her tone struck the right chord just a day after she trounced the Prince in a match race between their yachts on beautiful Copenhagen Harbour.
- Again, Cornwell has struck the right chord with her surrounding characters, who have been in Scarpetta's life since the beginning of the series.
- She seems to have struck the right chord with her dynamic vocals, Cinderella story and effervescent personality.
- Kumar knows he's struck the right chord post 9/11 and said that his film was all about peace.
- Adding music and dance to the game Twister struck the right chord with music-mad youngsters and parents who would rather see calories burned than retinas.
- The comic clowning, performed before an international audience, seemed to strike the right chord and the show duly won the top prize.
- While undoubtedly home to brilliant engineers, the Canadian Space Agency doesn't seem to strike the right chord with the public.
- There were speeches, elocution competition on emulating the qualities of Chacha Nehru - but the message seems not to have struck the right chord.
- Did he strike the right chord, do you think, Karen?
OriginMid 16th century (in the anatomical sense): a later spelling (influenced by Latin chorda ‘rope’) of cord. |