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- 1 A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together. countable, uncountable
"Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string."
- 2 stringed instruments that are played with a bow wordnet
- 3 Any similar long, thin and flexible object.; A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument. countable, uncountable
"a violin string"
- 4 a necklace made by stringing objects together wordnet
- 5 Any similar long, thin and flexible object.; A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet. countable, uncountable
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- 6 a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening wordnet
- 7 A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged. countable, uncountable
"a string of shells or beads"
- 8 a lightweight cord wordnet
- 9 A cohesive substance taking the form of a string. countable
"The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive"
- 10 a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket wordnet
- 11 A series of items or events. countable
"In 1933, disgusted and discouraged after a string of commercial failures, Clara quit the film business forever. She was twenty-six."
- 12 a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand wordnet
- 13 A slightly elevated (long, thin) peat ridge in a bog. countable, uncountable
"Strings and Flarks[:] The two most conspicuous land form patterns in water tracks are fields of tree islands and networks of strings and flarks. The origin of strings and flarks is a controversial subject that has been treated extensively[…]"
- 14 a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.) wordnet
- 15 The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc. countable
- 16 a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding wordnet
- 17 In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc. countable
- 18 (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop wordnet
- 19 A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable. collective, countable, uncountable
- 20 a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod) wordnet
- 21 An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity. countable
- 22 A stringed instrument. countable, metonymically
- 23 The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments. countable, plural-normally, uncountable
- 24 The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively. countable, figuratively, in-plural, uncountable
"no strings attached"
- 25 A tiny one-dimensional string-like entity, the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics. countable
- 26 Cannabis or marijuana. countable, slang, uncountable
- 27 Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail. countable, uncountable
- 28 The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept. countable, historical, uncountable
- 29 The points made in a game of billiards. broadly, countable, uncountable
- 30 The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line. countable, uncountable
- 31 A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. countable, uncountable
"Many of those that pretend to be great Rabbies in these studies have scarce saluted them from the strings, and the titlepage."
- 32 A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root. archaic, countable, uncountable
"Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom."
- 33 A nerve or tendon of an animal body. archaic, countable, uncountable
"The string of his tongue was loosed."
- 34 A board supporting steps countable, uncountable
- 35 An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. countable, uncountable
- 36 The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants. countable, uncountable
"the strings of beans"
- 37 A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. countable, uncountable
"a single miner is often found pursuing his solitary labours at a string or thin vein of ore"
- 38 A stringcourse. countable, uncountable
- 39 A hoax; a fake story. countable, dated, slang, uncountable
- 40 Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”). countable, slang, uncountable
"They were turning tricks, doing drugs, and generally little better off than they had been before, except that they were keeping more of their money. But they seemed lonely, too, without the company of their pimp and the rest of his string."
- 41 A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (using the mud pumps) and torque (using the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit. countable, uncountable
- 1 To put (items) on a string. transitive
"You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace."
- 2 add as if on a string wordnet
- 3 To put strings on (something). transitive
"It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly."
- 4 provide with strings wordnet
- 5 To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. intransitive
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- 6 thread on or as if on a string wordnet
- 7 To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game. intransitive
- 8 remove the stringy parts of wordnet
- 9 To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
"To be honest, you'd be better off trying to string a Skylark as a Richard's Pipit rather than as a Pectoral Sandpiper."
- 10 string together; tie or fasten with a string wordnet
- 11 stretch out or arrange like a string wordnet
- 12 move or come along wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”). Cognate with Scots string (“string”), Dutch streng (“cord, strand”), Low German strenge (“strand, cord, rope”), German Strang (“strand, cord, rope”), Danish streng (“string”), Swedish sträng (“string, cord, wire”), Icelandic strengur (“string”), Latvian stringt (“to be tight, wither”), Latin stringō (“I tighten”), Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “halter”), Ancient Greek στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).
From Middle English stryngen, strengen, from the noun (see above).
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