Talk:cord
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Rfv-senses:
- A musical tone; an audible musical note composed of one or more sounds.
- A cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
Is this an alternative spelling of chord for these? DCDuring TALK 03:14, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
- Re aircraft wing cross section, I haven't had time to look thoughougly, but it is a very common spelling, including in books. Will follow up later.--Dmol 08:56, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
- Even though it seems to occur, it seems like a misspelling rather than an alternative. AFAICT, it isn't nearly as common as the "chord" spelling in either context (<5%). DCDuring TALK 10:01, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
After consulting with Dmol:
- RFV failed music sense.
- Kept aircraft sense as common misspelling for now, but feel free either to re-RFV it (since no one provided citations) or to RFD it (if you do not believe it common enough).
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Rfv-sense: The string of a musical instrument. I do not see this sense in dictionaries. First appeared in this revision. --Dan Polansky 17:13, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
- It's really (deprecated template usage) chord which has this sense. See oxforddictionaries.com.
- The etymology is complicated. Both words ultimately originate from Greek, where the meaning is actually "string of gut, string of a lyre", but as pointed out in w:chord (music), (deprecated template usage) chord also continues Middle English cord, which is a shortening of (deprecated template usage) accord, an unrelated term. --Florian Blaschke 19:50, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
- RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 02:08, 21 August 2011 (UTC)