English-Portuguese translations for chord

• acorde
  É como se um dia fosse possível emitir patentes para escalas, notas e acordes. It is as though it were possible one day to patent scales, notes and chords.
  Ora, conforme bem sublinha o relator, "um programa de computador não é mais susceptível de ser protegido por uma patente que um acorde musical ou uma associação de palavras.As the report correctly points out, ‘a piece of software is no more patentable than a musical chord or a combination of words.
  Senhora Comissária Vassiliou, os acordes tocados no violoncelo em Sarajevo, aquele de que nos falou a senhora deputada Pack, têm mais eco na nossa Europa do que uma profusão de regulamentos. Mrs Vassiliou, the chords played by that violin in Sarajevo, the one Mrs Pack told us about, resonate more with our Europe than with a multitude of regulations.
• corda
  Espero que as suas cordas vocais recuperem depressa, Senhor Deputado Stevenson. I hope your vocal chords recover soon, Mr Stevenson.
  Há alguns dias, na sua no Colégio Europeu de Parma, Jacques Delors fez uma declaração que me tocou uma corda sensível. A few days ago, in his at the European College of Parma, Jacques Delors made a statement that struck a chord with me.

Definition of chord

• A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously
• A straight line between two points of a curve
• The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow
• A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P
• The string of a musical instrument
• A cord
• To write chords for
• To accord; to harmonize together
• To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune

Examples

• This note chords with that one.

Related words

• harpsichord
• clavichord
• notochord
• hexachord
• chordate
• chordophone
• harpsichordist
• tetrachord
• chordee