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cor·don

(kôr′dn)

1. A line of people, military posts, or ships stationed around an area to enclose or guard it: a police cordon.

2. A rope, line, tape, or similar border stretched around an area, usually by the police, indicating that access is restricted.

a. A cord or braid worn as a fastening or ornament.

b. A ribbon usually worn diagonally across the breast as a badge of honor or decoration.

4. Architecture A stringcourse.

5. Botany A tree or shrub, especially a fruit tree such as an apple or pear, repeatedly pruned and trained to grow on a support as a single ropelike stem.

tr.v. cor·doned, cor·don·ing, cor·dons

To form a cordon around (an area) so as to prevent movement in or out. Often used with off: Troops cordoned off the riot zone.

[French, from Old French, diminutive of corde, cord; see cord.]

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cordon

(ˈkɔːdən)

1. (Military) a chain of police, soldiers, ships, etc, stationed around an area

2. a ribbon worn as insignia of honour or rank

3. (Textiles) a cord or ribbon worn as an ornament or fastening

4. (Architecture) architect Also called: stringcourse, belt course or table an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall

5. (Horticulture) horticulture a form of fruit tree consisting of a single stem bearing fruiting spurs, produced by cutting back all lateral branches

(often foll by: off) to put or form a cordon (around); close (off)

[C16: from Old French, literally: a little cord, from corde string, cord]

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cor•don

(ˈkɔr dn)

n.

1. a line of police, sentinels, military posts, warships, etc., enclosing or guarding an area.

2. a cord, braid, or ribbon worn as an ornament, fastening, or badge.

3. a stringcourse, esp. one having little or no projection, on the face of a building.

v.t.

4. to surround or blockade with or as if with a cordon (often fol. by off).

[1400–50; Middle English < Middle French, diminutive of corde]

Cordon

a continuous line or circle of persons or objects forming a barrier around a person, place, or building; a string or row of stones. See also chain.

Examples: cordon of admirers, 1854; of strike pickets; of police, 1883; cordon sanitaire; of troops.

cordon

Past participle: cordoned
Gerund: cordoning

Imperative
cordon
cordon

Present
I cordon
you cordon
he/she/it cordons
we cordon
you cordon
they cordon

Preterite
I cordoned
you cordoned
he/she/it cordoned
we cordoned
you cordoned
they cordoned

Present Continuous
I am cordoning
you are cordoning
he/she/it is cordoning
we are cordoning
you are cordoning
they are cordoning

Present Perfect
I have cordoned
you have cordoned
he/she/it has cordoned
we have cordoned
you have cordoned
they have cordoned

Past Continuous
I was cordoning
you were cordoning
he/she/it was cordoning
we were cordoning
you were cordoning
they were cordoning

Past Perfect
I had cordoned
you had cordoned
he/she/it had cordoned
we had cordoned
you had cordoned
they had cordoned

Future
I will cordon
you will cordon
he/she/it will cordon
we will cordon
you will cordon
they will cordon

Future Perfect
I will have cordoned
you will have cordoned
he/she/it will have cordoned
we will have cordoned
you will have cordoned
they will have cordoned

Future Continuous
I will be cordoning
you will be cordoning
he/she/it will be cordoning
we will be cordoning
you will be cordoning
they will be cordoning

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been cordoning
you have been cordoning
he/she/it has been cordoning
we have been cordoning
you have been cordoning
they have been cordoning

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been cordoning
you will have been cordoning
he/she/it will have been cordoning
we will have been cordoning
you will have been cordoning
they will have been cordoning

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been cordoning
you had been cordoning
he/she/it had been cordoning
we had been cordoning
you had been cordoning
they had been cordoning

Conditional
I would cordon
you would cordon
he/she/it would cordon
we would cordon
you would cordon
they would cordon

Past Conditional
I would have cordoned
you would have cordoned
he/she/it would have cordoned
we would have cordoned
you would have cordoned
they would have cordoned

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cordon

The pruning and training method that results in a single stemmed plant. Used for dwarf fruiting trees, tomatoes and related plants.

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Noun	1.	cordon - a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing series - similar things placed in order or happening one after another; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies"
	2.	cordon - cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank insignia - a badge worn to show official position
	3.	cordon - adornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord adornment - a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness

cordon

noun chain, line, ring, barrier, picket line Police formed a cordon between the two crowds.

cordon something off surround, isolate, close off, fence off, separate, enclose, picket, encircle The police cordoned the area off.

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Translations

نِطاق مِن الشُّرطَه أو الجُنود

kordón

=-kædeafspærringkæde

kordon

varîhringur

cordone transennare

apsuptikordonas

kordons

кордон облава

kordón

kordon

警戒线

cordon

[ˈkɔːdn]

A. N → cordón m

B. VT (also to cordon off) → acordonar

C. CPD cordon sanitaire N (Pol) → cordón m sanitario

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cordon

[ˈkɔː^rd^ən] n [police, soldiers, vehicles] → cordon m

cordon off

[+ area] → interdire l'accès à

[+ crowd] → tenir à l'écartcordon bleu [ˈkɔː^rdɒnˈblɜː] adj [cookery, cook] → de cordon bleu

cordon

→ Kordon m, → Postenkette f; to put a cordon round something → einen Kordon um etw ziehen, etw (hermetisch) abriegeln

(= ribbon of an Order) → Kordon m, → (Ordens)band nt

(Hort) → Kordon m, → Schnurbaum m

vt = cordon off

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cordon

[ˈkɔːdn] n → cordone m

cordon off vt + adv → fare cordone intorno a

cordon

(ˈkoːdn) noun

a line of sentries or policemen to prevent people from entering an area. They've put a cordon round the house where the bomb is planted.

cordon off

to enclose with a cordon. The police cordoned off the area where the gunman was.

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It was the middle-watch; a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail.

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About eleven a company of soldiers came through Horsell, and deployed along the edge of the common to form a cordon. Later a second company marched through Chobham to deploy on the north side of the common.

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Shouldn't we put a cordon round to prevent the rest from running away?"

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The lane was crowded with villagers and people from the neighbouring farmhouses, who were all kept back, however, by a little cordon of soldiers.

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Tahoe for a sea in the clouds: a sea that has character and asserts it in solemn calms at times, at times in savage storms; a sea whose royal seclusion is guarded by a cordon of sentinel peaks that lift their frosty fronts nine thousand feet above the level world; a sea whose every aspect is impressive, whose belongings are all beautiful, whose lonely majesty types the Deity!

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They drew a cordon round me near Margot Meredith's tree, but I broke through it by a strategic movement to the south, and was next heard of in the Baby's Walk.

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Beyond these newspaper buildings again, and partially hidden by the arches of the old Elevated Railway of New York (long since converted into a mono-rail), there was another cordon of police and a sort of encampment of ambulances and doctors, busy with the dead and wounded who had been killed early in the night by the panic upon Brooklyn Bridge.

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made me a knight of the Garter, and Queen Anne of Austria has given me the cordon of the Holy Ghost.

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At the main entrance we were halted by a cordon of armed guards.

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Tarzan grabbed the Belgian about the waist, and bearing him beneath his arm as he might have borne a sack of flour, leaped forward in an attempt to break through the cordon. His right fist caught the nearest soldier upon the jaw and sent him hurtling backward upon his fellows.

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Moreau, whip in hand, marshalled us all into an irregular line, and we advanced now slowly, shouting to one another as we advanced and tightening the cordon about our victim.

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A long cordon cleared the camp of all strangers, while the main body fell into four lines with under-officers and file-leaders in front and on either flank.