The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chord \Chord\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Chording.] To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
When Jubal struck the chorded shell.
--Dryden.
Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.
--Beecher.
Wiktionary
(context computing of a keyboard or similar device English) By means of which the user can enter characters or commands in the form of "chords" by pressing several keys together instead of one after the other. n. An arrangement of musical chords. v
(present participle of chord English)
Wikipedia
Chording means pushing several keys or buttons simultaneously to achieve a result.
Usage examples of "chording".
The chording was tricky enough when voices carried the melody, but to pluck the tune as well as the accompaniment increased the difficulty.
Pona seemed unable to bridge strings with forefinger, the joint kept snapping up, and although the journeyman, Talmor, patiently showed her an alternative chording, she couldn't get to it fast enough to keep the rhythm of the exercise.
The complexity of the chording was so fascinating that she forgot she was keeping three harpers waiting.
She used the chorus for introduction, giving the Masterharper the chording, and smiling, even as she sang, to find herself so well accompanied.
Absently, she wondered why the sorcerers of Liedwahr never developed something like the autoharp, with chording bars.
With that second shiver, her feet slipped, but she kept chording, kept singing, her thoughts firmly on that image of a brown torrent.
After another set of coughs, she sang, chording the simple structure to match her spell.
She picked up the lutar and began the chording, then the song to call up her daughters image.
She was shaking by the time the envelope vanished, despite the full chording of the spell with the lutar, and the mirror was a flaming mass.
You're not supposed to take liberties with the Teaching Ballads and Sagas—" "So Periron taught me," she replied with an equally expressionless voice, "but the minor seventh in the second measure is an alternative chording in the Record at Half- Circle Sea Hold.
Rebuked, she skimmed the music, trying an alternative chording in one measure to see which would be easier on her hand at that tempo.
The occasional music for two gitars was extremely complex, switching from one time value to another, with chording difficult enough for uninjured hands.
He wrote the lyrics on scraps of notepaper, because otherwise he tended to mix them up or forget them altogether, chording the tune while he went "hmmnmm-hmmmm, ta-da-hmmmm," trying to look suave like Tony Bennett vamping and feeling like an asshole.
She was sitting on the porch in her rocker, chording her guitar and watching Gina at play in the yard, her broken leg in its cast stuck out stiffly in front of her.
She picked up the lutar and began the chording, then the song to call up her daughter's image.