What's the difference between chording and command?

Chording


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chord

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
  • (2) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
  • (3) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
  • (4) The mean value of outer villous perimeter, mean chord length and per cent area were respectively 46.9 mu (X 1000 mu 2) with a standard deviation of 4.6, 57.7 mu (standard deviation 9.3) and 66.1% (standard deviation 7.4).
  • (5) This is shown by serial reconstruction analysis of the largest diameter of synapses from maximal arc and chord length measurements at the subpial and supra Purkinje level.
  • (6) Nevertheless, Dickens's preoccupation with class in Great Expectations strikes a chord with Coltrane, who gives a good idea of what it means to him when he recalls coming across a few Bullingdon Club types outside a restaurant in Soho one night.
  • (7) From the intersection points, epicardial and endocardial circumferential chord and arc lengths were measured and angular twist of mid and apical levels with respect to the base (maximal torsion and its reversal, untwisting) was calculated.
  • (8) Although such allegations have been made before in numerous news outlets, and in a controversial one-man show by playwright Mike Daisey, this time they have struck a chord.
  • (9) Zonal Vct and percent shortening along the proximal, middle and distal chords were measured.
  • (10) Clinical appearance of mitral incompetence associated with mitral dysplasia (abnormal connective tissue structure in the cusps and chordae, with significant accumulation of acid mucopolysaccharides) is dependent on the extent of regurgitation, its pathogenetic mechanism (sudden or progressive), the presence of the prolapsing cusp syndrome, and attendant complications (endocarditis, chord abruption).
  • (11) In the larynx, changes in the area of the vocal chord and the cartilaginous laryngeal structures were investigated in particular.
  • (12) Bridget's combination of self-loathing, enthusiasm and hope against the odds struck a chord.
  • (13) In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales , Graham Nash – of the Hollies and Crosby Stills & Nash – recalled the effect the song had on him when he heard it at a school dance in Salford: "It was like the opening of a giant door in my soul, the striking of a chord... from which I've never recovered … From the time when I first heard the Everly Brothers, I knew I wanted to make music that affected people the way the Everlys affected me."
  • (14) The poem touches a chord, because it doesn't deal with the often incoherent motivations of those who smashed up Tottenham and elsewhere, but the feelings of the rest of us: shocked, unsettled and confused.
  • (15) It appears simple perhaps in its chording but generally, to actually play what we play and how we play it, it’s not simple.
  • (16) During some maneuver, at least one akinetic chord occurred in 57% of patients and out-of-phase chords in 33% of patients.
  • (17) While it is true that a descending chromatic four-chord progression is a common convention that abounds in the music industry, the similarities here transcend this core structure,” Klausner wrote.
  • (18) The voltage dependence of the K+ chord conductance (gK) also shifted positive along the voltage axis, and the maximum conductance increased, with elevation of [K+]out.
  • (19) The chord conductance of the channel decreased with membrane depolarization from 14.6 pS at -104 mV to only 9.9 pS at -54 mV.
  • (20) Specifically, chords 5.9 times longer on average (range = 5.4-6.2) were required on the proximal forearm than on the index finger pad.

Command


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
  • (v. t.) To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead.
  • (v. t.) To have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook.
  • (v. t.) To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price.
  • (v. t.) To direct to come; to bestow.
  • (v. i.) To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.
  • (v. i.) To have a view, as from a superior position.
  • (n.) An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.
  • (n.) The possession or exercise of authority.
  • (n.) Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.
  • (n.) Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.
  • (n.) Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.
  • (n.) A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
  • (2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (3) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
  • (4) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
  • (5) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
  • (6) Harati was commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan revolution.
  • (7) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
  • (8) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
  • (9) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
  • (10) Thus, SA may be controlled by a discrete number of motoneuron task groups reflecting a small number of central command signals or by a continuum of activation patterns associated with a continuum of moment arms.
  • (11) "We try to get closer to the people, we try to get lower down the command structures and we try to be more embedded than sometimes the Americans appear to do," the defence secretary said.
  • (12) The strike, which Central Command said destroyed the Isis fighting position, follows Barack Obama's vow in his televised speech on Wednesday to go on the offensive against Isis more broadly in Iraq and, soon, Syria.
  • (13) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
  • (14) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
  • (15) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
  • (16) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
  • (17) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
  • (18) In a statement, the IDF said Jaabari was "a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas command", and had been "directly responsible for executing terror attacks against the state of Israel in the past number of years".
  • (19) Commanders were calling Roberts on his mobile phone, pleading for help.
  • (20) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.

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