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The quiet villain that knots itself in your pocket while you sleep.
means A long, flexible length of twisted or braided strands used to bind, tie, hang, or connect things — and, by extension, an electrical cable.
from From Old French 'corde,' itself from Latin 'chorda,' meaning the string of a musical instrument or a gut cord — borrowed in turn from Greek 'chordē,' 'gut, string.' That same Greek root quietly survives in 'chord' (the musical kind), making the tangled thing in your pocket a distant cousin of harmony itself.
- chaos theory
- Tangles form spontaneously, proven by actual physics studies
- old money
- Corduroy means 'cord of the king' in fake French
- wood unit
- A cord of firewood is 128 cubic feet
- vocal power
- Vocal cords vibrate up to 1,000 times per second
- lifeline
- The umbilical cord carries blood, not breath, to babies
umbilical cord — connects fetus to placenta, contains 2 arteries and 1 vein
spinal cord — extends from brain to lumbar vertebrae, 18 inches long in adults
vocal cords — two folds in larynx that vibrate to produce sound
cord of wood — stacked firewood measuring 4×4×8 feet, still used for heating