discord
IPA: dˈɪskɔrd
noun
- Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
- Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
- (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
- Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
- A freeware chat application available for PC and mobile devices, initially released on 6 March 2015, using VoIP and instant messaging.
- (informal) A Discord server.
verb
- (intransitive, archaic) To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
- (transitive, rare) To untie things which are connected by a cord.
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Examples of "discord" in Sentences
- Her definition of Sociopath appears to be anyone who acts in discord with accepted societal standard
- Meiring said his request was prompted by what he labelled discord and distrust sparked by the leakage of a Military
- Not being fully involved in this part of the middle east discord, is caused by being overwhelmed by the Iraq morass.
- Meiring on Monday said his decision to retire was prompted by what he labelled discord and distrust sparked by the leakage of the report.
- Balance becomes discord (disharmoneous imbalance) through the process of disruption; that discord is simply the effect of some event upon the world.
- Were it not so we would be the only Utopia on the globe -- a mythical Earthly Paradise, or a buried sea-city of Atlantis whose only discord is the music of its silver bells.
- I agree that there are huge problems with the UN Security Council, and I also agree that much of these problems are rooted in discord between China/Russia and the other permanent Security Council members.
- Let us consider her as a whole, who can only maintain herself by what we call the discord of the elements; that she exists by the continual dissolution and re-union of her parts; that from this springs the universal harmony; that from this the general stability has its birth.
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