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Cordage

Definition: Cordage

Cordage

Noun

1. The amount of wood in an area as measured in cords.

2. The ropes in the rigging of a ship.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cordage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)


Specialty Definition: Cordage

DomainDefinition

Botanical

A substance used for rope. Aechmea, Apeiba, Cecropia, Cochlospermum, Combretum, Coroso, Couroupita, Cydista, Davilla, Helicostylis, Desmoncus, Guazuma, Helicocarpus, Hibiscus, Muntingia, Musa, Paullinia, Rollinia, Rourea, Pseudobombax, Securidaca, Sida, Trema, Triumfetta, Urena, Xylopia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Cordage

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Connection

Bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string; (filament).

Size

Capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cordage

English words defined with "cordage": Apocynum cannabinumbalibago, bowstring hempcalabur tree, calabura, Cecropia, Colorado River hempEspartofibrousgenus Cecropia, Gunny clothHawser-laid, hempen, Hibiscus tiliaceus, Hoheria populnea, houhereIndian cordage, Indian hempJamaican cherry, Junk dealer, junk shopKyarlacebark, Lifmahagua, mahoe, majagua, Muntingia calaburaNew Zealand flaxPlain-laid, purauraffia, rheumatism weed, ribbonwood, Right-hand rope, Rogue's yarnSesbania exaltata, Shakings, ship chandler, Shroud-laid, silkwood, Stringy barkTucumWater-laid. (references)
Specialty definitions using "cordage": Bejuco mulato, bosunChibuga, CISSAMPELOS PAREIRA, COMBRETUM FRUTICOSUMDAVILLA, DESMONCHUS, DRAWSTRING KNOTTERFURCRAEAGOUANIA LUPULOIDES, GUAMA ULMIFOLIA, GUILIELMA GASIPAESHELICTERES GUAZUMAEFOLIA, HELIOCARPUS POPAYANENSISKwalaMalagueto hembra, manila rope, MUNTIGINIA CALABURAPSEUDOBOMBAX SEPTENATUM, PSEUDOGYNOXYS BOGOTENSISROLLINIA JIMENEZII, ROUREA GLABRA. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Cordage" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (cordage, rope).

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Commercial Usage: Cordage

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Twine, Cordage, Rope, and Cable Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Stranded Wire, Cable, and Cordage in The Middle East (reference)

  • The 2002 World Market Forecasts for Imported Twine, Cordage, Rope, and Cable (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Twine, Cordage, Rope, and Cable Export Supplies (reference)

  • The World Market for Twine, Cordage, Rope, and Cable: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Stranded Wire, Cable, and Cordage in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Cordage

TitleAuthorQuote

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

The seamen were all provided with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cordage

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Argentina has restricted imports of used clothing and textiles, closeouts, irregulars, new and used rags, and scrap cordage of textile material wastes. (references)

Trade

Colombia

No import licenses are being approved for the following: used vehicles and parts, used tires, used or irregular clothing, clothing closeouts, used bags and sacks, sacks of vegetable fibers, rags, and scrap cordage of textile material wastes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cordage

"Cordage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cordage" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Cordage

Expression using "cordage": Indian cordage. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cordage

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cordage

37

yale cordage

13

cordage plant

13

continental cordage

7

cordage institute

4

cordage samson

3

cordage park

2

cordage rope twines

2

cordage park plymouth

2

cordage tennis

2

cordage plymouth

2

continental cordage corporation

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cordage

Language Translations for "cordage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

litarë (rig, rigging). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حبال السفينة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

въжета (lashing, roping). (various references)

   

Czech

  

lanoví (gear, rigging). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tovvaerk (ropes). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

touwwerk (ropes), kabel (cable, conductor, conduit). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مجموع طناب های کشتی . (various references)

   

French

  

cordage. (various references)

   

German

  

Tauwerk (lashing, lashings, rigging), Seil (cable, cord, high-wire, rope, string, tightrope, wire). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σχοινιά (ropes). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hajókötél (hawser, junk, moorings, rope). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cordame (ropework). (various references)

   

Manx

  

teaddaght. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ordagecay

   

Portuguese

  

cordame (raggery, rigging, rope). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cordaj, tachelaj (rope), parâme (gripe). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

веревки (lashing). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

užarija, užad. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cordaje (rigging, tackle). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tågvirke (rope, ropes). (various references)

   

Thai

  

จำนวนเชือกทั้งหม". (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ipler, halat takımı. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

снасті, такелаж (rigging, tackle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cordage

Derivations

Words beginning with "cordage": cordages. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Cordage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cardage, Cerdagne, codae, codage, condage, Coraggio, corda, Cordale, Cordee, Cromdale, curage, koradrel, Nordgau, Pordage. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cordage"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "cordage" (pronounced kô"rdij)
4-r d i jyardage.
3-d i jappendage, bandage, bondage, poundage.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Cordage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-o-r"

-1 letter: cadger, codger, dogear, graced.

-2 letters: acred, adore, arced, cadge, cadre, caged, cager, cared, cargo, cedar, coder, cored, credo, decor, gored, grace, grade, oared, ocrea, oread, raced, raged.

-3 letters: aced, acre, aero, aged, ager, arco, cade, cage, card, care, cero, coda, code, coed, cord, core, crag, dace, dago, dare, dear, deco, doer, doge, dore.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-g-o-r"
 

+1 letter: cordages.

 

+2 letters: clangored.

 

+3 letters: androgenic, clangoured, corrigenda, corrugated, cradlesong, decorating, discourage, dogcatcher, encouraged, gasconader, ideogramic, outcharged, radiogenic.

 

+4 letters: becowarding, cardiogenic, categorised, categorized, congregated, copyreading, cordgrasses, cradlesongs, demographic, discouraged, discourager, discourages, dogcatchers, gasconaders, ideogrammic, ideographic, overcharged, ropedancing, scattergood, sockdolager, sugarcoated, tragicomedy.

 

+5 letters: androgenetic, backgrounded, backgrounder, cardiologies, demographics, dermatologic, diageotropic, discographer, discouragers, dopaminergic, edulcorating, hectographed, micrographed, micromanaged, overpackaged, radioecology, redecorating, ropedancings, scattergoods, shortchanged, sockdolagers, turbocharged, undercoating.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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