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> chord and cord chord and cord are liable to be confused because they sound alike. The spelling chord is used in the musical sense, as in "play the wrong chord", and in the mathematical sense, as in "draw a chord joining the points on the circumference of a circle". The spelling cord is used to mean "a kind of string", as in "tie up the bundle with cord" and "use a piece of nylon cord as a washing line". Cord is also used with reference to certain parts of the body, as in "spinal cord", "vocal cords", umbilical cord". Pour éviter fautes de grammaire, contresens et confusions. The English Usage Dictionary est le parfait complément des dictionnaires bilingues, du dictionnaire de définitions anglaises et du Thesaurus. Ce dictionnaire signale toutes les difficultés que recèle l'usage d'un mot: orthographe, grammaire, prononciation, homonymies, etc. Exemple d'article du dictionnaire English Usage Dictionary