Chord vs. Chore — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chord and Chore
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Chord
(Music) A combination of three or more pitches sounded simultaneously.
Chore
A routine or minor duty or task.
Chord
Harmony, as of color.
Chore
An unpleasant or burdensome task
What a chore it was cleaning out the garage.
Chord
A line segment that joins two points on a curve. See Usage Note at chord1.
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Chore
A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
Washing dishes is a chore, but we cannot just stop eating.
The children were made to do their daily chores before being allowed to play games.
I used to enjoy being self-employed, but it's become a bit of a chore recently.
Chord
A straight line connecting the leading and trailing edges of an airfoil.
Chore
To do chores.
Chord
(Anatomy) Variant of cord.
Chore
To steal.
Chord
An emotional feeling or response
Her words struck a sympathetic chord in her audience.
Chore
A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
Chord
(Archaic) The string of a musical instrument.
Chore
A choir or chorus.
Chord
(Music) To play chords
She chorded up and down the neck of the guitar.
Chore
To do chores.
Chord
To play chords on
Chorded the piano.
Chore
A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;
Estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars
The job of repairing the engine took several hours
The endless task of classifying the samples
The farmer's morning chores
Chord
To produce by playing musical chords; harmonize
Chord a melody.
Chord
(music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
Chord
(geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve. Category:en:Shapes
Chord
(engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
Chord
(rail) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
Chord
(aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
Chord
(nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
Chord
(computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
Chord
The string of a musical instrument.
Chord
(anatomy) A cord.
Chord
(graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
Chord
(transitive) To write chords for.
Chord
(music) To accord; to harmonize together.
This note chords with that one.
Chord
(transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
Chord
The string of a musical instrument.
Chord
A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
Chord
A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.
Chord
The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.
Chord
To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
When Jubal struck the chorded shell.
Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.
Chord
To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.
Chord
A straight line connecting two points on a curve
Chord
A combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
Chord
Play chords on (a string instrument)
Chord
Bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing
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