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# cordless

«cordless» in Mova's school dictionary: **A cordless device works without being plugged into the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (cordless; not compared)

### meaning for a pupil

A cordless device works without being plugged into the wall by a wire, usually because it has a battery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordless/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used for everyday machines at home and in DIY: a cordless phone, cordless drill, cordless vacuum cleaner, cordless kettle (whose base is plugged in). It tells you that you can carry it around, but it must be charged.

### examples

- Grandma still has a cordless phone in the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordless/#x1)
- Dad used a cordless drill to put up the shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordless/#x2)
- The cordless vacuum needs charging every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordless/#x3)
- A cordless kettle lifts off its base so you can pour easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordless/#x4)
- Cordless headphones use Bluetooth instead of a wire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordless/#x5)
- We took the cordless speaker into the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordless/#x6)

### note

«Cord» here means an electric wire (in the UK often called a lead or flex). Do not confuse cord with chord (notes played together in music).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cordless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cordless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.