What does "stringer" mean?
Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
Stringer
/stɹɪŋɚ/ name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
- Grammar: stringer is listed as name, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: beam, contributor, cord, corespondent.
- Useful contrasts: staff reporter.
- Usage evidence: Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
"Be content to put your trust in honest stringers."
- 2 a long horizontal timber to connect uprights wordnet
- 3 Someone who strings someone along.
- 4 brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull wordnet
- 5 A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
"A startled man looked out the office window and then rushed for the door, but the boys were too quick for him. They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door."
Show 12 more definitions
- 6 a worker who strings wordnet
- 7 The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
- 8 a member of a squad on a team wordnet
- 9 A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
- 10 A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
"And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday."
- 11 A person who plays on a particular string.
- 12 Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
- 13 A hard-hit ball. slang
- 14 A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
""Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat."
- 15 A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
- 16 A libertine; a wencher. obsolete
"A whoreson tyrant! He has been an old stringer in's days"
- 17 A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.
"[T]hose fellows know how to spot a stringer at work."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname originating as an occupation for a stringer. countable, uncountable
- 2 An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Mississippi, United States, named after a postmaster. countable, uncountable
Antonyms
staff reporter
Example
"Be content to put your trust in honest stringers."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "stringer"?
Common synonyms include: beam, contributor, cord, corespondent, correspondent, crosspiece.
How do you use "stringer" in a sentence?
Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.
How do you pronounce "stringer"?
Pronounced /stɹɪŋɚ/.
Etymology
From string + -er.