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chord
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chord as in:  piano chord

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  • Its tremendous chords held all the sorrow and all the strength of the people of the city.  (source)
    chords = notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
  • He pulled on the starter chord with his good hand, and the generator stuttered and growled to life.†  (source)
  • I assure you, my dear, were you to play the piano on the moon, I would hear every chord.†  (source)
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  • Dissonance and harmonic tension slowly resolved into warm chords—the sound was transcendent.†  (source)
  • As I held the guitar over my head, the metallic ringing segued into a guitar power chord that echoed throughout the cave.†  (source)
  • All his favorites, chording slower and slower, quieter and quieter.†  (source)
    chording = blending three or more musical notes
  • The guitar thudded with chorded applause for the singer.†  (source)
    chorded = blended three or more musical notes
  • All right, you tell Uncle Felix," said Aunt Ethel, turning toward the roses, spreading her little hand out chordlike over them, "—of course he must have these-that that's Souvenir de Claudius Pernet-and that's Mermaid-Mary Wallace-Silver Moon— those three of course Etoiles-and oh, Duquesa de Penaranda-Gruss an Aachen's of course his cutting he grew for me a thousand years ago— but there's my Climbing Thor!†  (source)
    chordlike = in a manner like the blending of musical notes
  • Chords float past in transparent riffles.†  (source)
  • Dad screamed at Mom to slow down, but she kept going and dragged the screeching, chord-banging piano across the depot floor and right through the rear door, splintering its frame, too, then out into the backyard, where it came to rest next to a thorny bush.†  (source)
  • A boy with a guitar sang the "Down Home Blues," chording delicately for himself, and on his second chorus three harmonicas and a fiddle joined him.†  (source)
    chording = blending three or more musical notes
  • The rage of hunger quell'd, they all advance And form to measured airs the mazy dance; To Phemius was consign'd the chorded lyre, Whose hand reluctant touch'd the warbling wire; Phemius, whose voice divine could sweetest sing High strains responsive to the vocal string.†  (source)
    chorded = blended three or more musical notes
  • They were ripe and ragged, raging power chords through the neighborhood, while I looked like I'd just gotten back from Sunday school.†  (source)
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