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Definition: Corduroy |
CorduroyAdjective1. (of roads) made of logs laid down crosswise; "a corduroy road". Noun1. A cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton. 2. A road made of logs laid crosswise. Verb1. Build (a road) from logs laid side by side. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corduroy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | A road made of logs laid crosswise on the ground or on other logs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A road built of logs or poles, and occasionally of sawn-timber scrap, e. g. discarded crossties, which are laid side by side across it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A cut-weft-pile fabric in which the cut fibres form the surface. The binding points of the pile wefts are arranged so that after the pile has been cut, cords or ribs are formed in the direction of the warp. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Corduroy A corded fabric, originally made of silk, and worn by the kings of France in the chase. (French, cord du roy.) Corduroy Road. A term applied to roads in the backwoods and swampy districts of the United States of America, formed of the halves of trees sawn in two longitudinally, and laid transversely across the track. A road thus made presents a ribbed appearance, like the cloth called corduroy. "Look well to your seat, 'tis like taking an airing On a corduroy road, and that out of repairing." Lowell: Fable for Critics, stanza 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A ribbed and napped textile material used for recovering coarse gold or other heavy metal or mineral from a stream of sand passing over it. A corduroy blanket is replaced about every 4 hours for washing to remove thegold. (references) |
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Synonyms: CorduroySynonyms: corduroy(a) (adj), log(a) (adj), cord (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Furrow | Noun: furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road, cradle hole. |
Adjective: furrowed; Verb: ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted, canaliculated; bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated; canaliferous; trisulcate; corduroy; unisulcate; costate, rimiform. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Corduroy |
| English words defined with "corduroy": Bedford cord ♦ cords, Corduroy road, corduroys ♦ log ♦ narrow wale ♦ wide wale. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "corduroy": CORDUROY-BRUSHER OPERATOR, CORDUROY-CUTTER OPERATOR, cutting-machine operator ♦ FILLING PILE FABRIC ♦ PICK-UP OPERATOR. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | A Pocket for Corduroy (1986) Corduroy (1984) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Richmond, Va., vicinity. Engineers building corduroy road. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | That was a smell of air and rain and turf and corduroy. |
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| "Corduroy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.28% of the time. "Corduroy" is used about 128 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.28% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.72% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "corduroy": corduroy road. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "corduroy": corduroy-clad, corduroy-jacket-wearing. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "corduroy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kadife me vija. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рипсено кадифе. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 条' (corduroys). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | manšestr (cord). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | cord (cord), svellevej (corduroy road), manchester, fløjlscord. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | corduroy weg (corduroy road), corduroy, ribfluweel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مخمل نخی راه راه , مخمل کبریتی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | telatie (corduroy road), puukäytävä, kapulatie, kapulasilta (corduroy road). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | velours côtelé (cord). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kordsamt, kord (cord). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοτλέ (fustian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kordbársony (cords, fustian, thick-set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | beledu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | velluto a coste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 桟" (plank road). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さ"どう (approval, birth canal, endorsement, mountain road, mountain trail, plank road, road approaching a shrine, visiting a home or a shrine), うねおり (ribbed fabric, ridged fabric), コールテン , コールて" (corded velveteen), コージュロイ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coyrdey (cord), coyrd y ree. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orduroycay caminhos para exploração (corduroy road), caminho sobre troncos, veludo cotelê, bombazina. (various references) catifea cord, pantaloni de catifea cord. (various references) cord. (various references) рубчатый плис. (various references) forbele. (various references) somot (velvet). (various references) pana (blackout, brakedown, breakdown, cord, corduroys, panne, velveteen). (various references) korderoj, kavelbro (corduroy road). (various references) fitilli kadife (cord). (various references) рубчастий вельвет, брусована дорога. (various references) melfare/d. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corduroy": corduroyed, corduroying, corduroys. (additional references) | |
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"Corduroy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carduroy, Choudury, Corcuero, cordaroy, cordeeroy, Cordeiro, corderoy, cordiroy, cordoroy, cordouroy, cordroy, cordury, courduroy, Scardroy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-o-o-r-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: corrody. | |
-2 letters: corody. | |
-3 letters: cruor, curdy, curry, duroc, odour. | |
-4 letters: cord, cory, crud, curd, curr, door, dorr, dory, dour, duro, durr, odor, ordo, rood, your. | |
-5 letters: cod, coo, cor, coy, cry, cud, cur, doc, dor, dry, duo, orc, oud, our, roc, rod, udo, urd, yod, you. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-o-o-r-r-u-y" | |
+1 letter: corduroys. | |
+2 letters: corduroyed. | |
+3 letters: corduroying. | |
+4 letters: introductory. | |
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