Cords : nf (word coming from the Latin chorda, first in the sense of "gut" and "string -of a musical instrument-" then of "tie").
The word "rope" has many meanings:
I) Wire braid
A. General meaning
1. Link formed by an assembly of twisted or braided threads, relatively tight and fairly resistant (unlike string (rope, cord).
Soft, strong rope.
Small cord (cord, string).
Big rope (cable).
Hemp, linen, cotton, jute, nylon rope.
Bind, attach, suspend, pull something with a cord.
To tie someone with a rope (tie up).
To hang, to tie a cord; stretch a rope.
Manufacture of ropes (corderie).
Rope used to draw straight lines on the ground (string).
Noose rope for catching wild animals (lasso).
Rope for leading a horse (longe).
Rope that is worn as a belt (cordelière, cord).
Specially: Measure wood by cord.
By extension: A cord of wood: about 4 cubic meters.
Figurative phrase: It's raining, it's falling heavily: it's raining very hard.
2. Rope: material made of rope.
Rope carpet.
Rope soles.
B. Special jobs:
1. Bow string, crossbow. To stretch, to bend the string of a bow.
Figurative phrase: To have several strings to one's bow.
Pulling the string: abusing an advantage, a person's patience (pulling the string).
Mathematics: Segment which joins two points of an arc of curve.
2. Tie that is passed around someone's neck to hang him (colloquial: hemp tie).
By extension: aged meaning: Torment of the gallows (hanging).
Bag and rope man.
Colloquial phrase: Put the noose around your neck: get married.
Talking rope in a hanged man's house, committing a mistake.
Proverb: He is not worth the rope to hang him.
3. Weft of a fabric, become visible by wear.
Garment that shows the rope, threadbare (threaded).
Figurative: A threadbare argument (hackneyed).
4 Clothesline: line on which clothes are put to dry (spreader, drying rack).
Colloquialism in Canada: Spend the night on the clothesline: spend a sleepless or restless night.
5. Of the rope which limited the interior of the track of a racecourse. Part of the track located along its inner limit.
Hold the rope: stay close to the rope; fig. to be well placed, to have the advantage in a competition.
Automobile: Take a bend at the rope, hugging the inside edge of the bend very closely (cutting a bend).
6. Rope, wire or cable on which the acrobats evolve.
Tightrope dancer (tightrope walker).
Locuti. Being on the tightrope, in a delicate situation.
Rope (for skipping, region: for dancing): rope with handles that you turn above your head then close to the ground, skipping each time you pass it.
Little girl, boxer who jumps rope.
Gymnastics: Smooth rope, rope with knots, used for climbing.
Rope ladder.
The strings: string enclosure of a ring. Being sent to the ropes.
Figurative phrase: Send someone to the ropes: put them back in their place (return to their goals).
7. Link used by mountaineers to attach themselves to each other and secure themselves against falls.
Attachment rope (to tie up; roped), reminder.
II) Taut wire that vibrates
1. Music: Vibrating gut string, horsehair, metal wire, fundamental sound element of certain instruments.
Plucked string instruments (harpsichord, guitar, mandolin), bowed and bowed string instruments (viola, double bass, viol, violin, cello), struck strings (piano). Spun rope, reinforced with coiled metal wire.
Sympathetic string, in metal, which vibrates by resonance with a bowed string (viola d'amore).
The thinnest string of a violin (chanterelle), the thickest (bourdon).
At most. The strings: all of the orchestra's bowed instruments.
String Quartet.
2. The strings of a tennis racket (string, sieve).
3. Figurative: What vibrates, what is sensitive. Make people vibrate, strike a chord: talk to someone about what touches them the most.
III) In anatomy
1. Vocal cords: twin muscular folds located on either side of the larynx, whose tension and movements determine the sound emission.
Phrase: It's out of my league: it's out of my jurisdiction.
Cord of the eardrum: nerve that transmits the sensations of taste.
2. Dorsal cord: cell cord of primitive vertebrates and first outline of the vertebral column in the embryo (notochord).
IV) In physics: String theory: theory according to which the particles which constitute matter are tiny filaments in a state of vibration, the strings. String theory attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity.