String
[strɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a lightweight cord.
(noun.) a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed.
(noun.) a collection of objects threaded on a single strand.
(noun.) a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases).
(noun.) a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding; 'a string of islands'; 'train of mourners'; 'a train of thought'.
(noun.) (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop.
(noun.) a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod).
(verb.) add as if on a string; 'string these ideas together'; 'string up these songs and you'll have a musical'.
(verb.) provide with strings; 'string my guitar'.
(verb.) thread on or as if on a string; 'string pearls on a string'; 'the child drew glass beads on a string'; 'thread dried cranberries'.
(verb.) remove the stringy parts of; 'string beans'.
(verb.) string together; tie or fasten with a string; 'string the package'.
(verb.) stretch out or arrange like a string.
(verb.) move or come along.
校對:西蒙--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
(n.) 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; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
(n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
(n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
(n.) The line or cord of a bow.
(n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
(n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
(n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
(n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
(n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(n.) Same as Stringcourse.
(n.) The points made in a game.
(v. t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
(v. t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
(v. t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
(v. t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
(v. t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
哈伦校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Line, cord, thread, twine, CHORD.[2]. Row, file, series, concatenation.
v. a. [1]. File, put on a string.[2]. Set in a row, put in line.[3]. Strengthen, fortify, make firm.
校對:马奇
解釋/意思:
n. a small cord or slip of anything for tying small cord twine: a ribbon: nerve tendon a vegetable fibre: the chord (slender piece of wire or catgut stretched) of a musical instrument: (pl.) stringed instruments collectively: a cord on which things are filed a succession or series of things: a drove of horses: in billiards the buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept the score itself: an expedient object in view or of pursuit: the highest range of planks in a ship's ceiling.—v.t. to supply with strings: to put in tune: to put on a string: to make tense or firm: to take the strings off.—v.i. to stretch out into a long line: to form itself into strings: at billiards to drive the ball against the end of the table and back in order to determine which player is to open the game:—pa.t. and pa.p. strung.—ns. String′-band a band composed chiefly of stringed instruments; String′-board a board which faces the well-hole of a staircase and receives the ends of the steps; String′-course a projecting horizontal course or line of mouldings running quite along the face of a building.—adj. Stringed having strings.—ns. String′er one who or that which strings: a lengthwise timber on which a rail is fastened resting on a transverse cross-tie or sleeper: any main lengthways timber in a bridge or other building: a small screw-hook to which piano-strings are sometimes attached: (naut.) a shelf-piece an inside horizontal plank supporting beam-ends any heavy timber similarly carried round a vessel to strengthen her for special heavy service as whaling &c.; String′iness.—adj. String′less having no strings.—ns. String′-or′gan a reed-organ having a graduated set of vibrators or free reeds connected by rods which cause to vibrate corresponding wires or strings stretched over a sounding-board; String′-pea a pea with edible pods; String′-piece a supporting timber forming the edge of the framework of a floor or staircase &c.; String′-plate; a metal plate bearing the spring-block of a pianoforte.—adj. String′y consisting of strings or small threads: fibrous: capable of being drawn into strings.—n. String′y-bark one of a class of Australian gum-trees with very fibrous bark.—Harp upon one string (see under Harp); Have one on a string to gain complete influence or control over some one: to place a person under great anxiety; Have two strings to one's bow to have more than one expedient for attaining the object in view.
奥古斯汀錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- The explanation of this is, that a string may vibrate in a number of different ways. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I wish you could string them through. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Oh dear me, I must get some string, or silk, or—Oh, she cried, struck with a sudden thought, have you a knife? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- She often took me out of my box, at my own desire, to give me air, and show me the country, but always held me fast by a leading-string. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- If the string vibrates as a whole merely, the tone given out is simple, and seems dull and characterless. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- There was no speaking among the string of riders. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- An improved and extended string telephone. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- They cut his bed-strings. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Of such melodious strings is Miss Pleasant Riderhood formed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There were light boxes on shelves in the counting-house, and strings of mock beads hanging up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Far down the lake were fantastic pale strings of colour, like beads of wan fire, green and red and yellow. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- All these strings intertwining made Pancks a very cable of anchorage that night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- A song played on tuning forks instead of on strings would be lifeless and unsatisfying because of the absence of overtones. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- To one pair of strings there were glued, back to back, two sheets of paper, which, when folded over, formed the flaps of the portfolio. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- At the far eastern confine a strange cavalcade strung, in single file, over the brow of a low hill. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The man's body, strung to its efforts, vibrated strongly. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The animals are driven into a catching pen at 1, where they are strung up by one leg, and secured to a traveling pulley on an overhead rail. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- But it's a pity you should not have little recreations of that sort, Casaubon: the bow always strung--that kind of thing, you know--will not do. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She wore no hat in the heated cafe, her loose, simple jumper was strung on a string round her neck. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- This was too much for Dorothea's highly-strung feeling, and she burst into tears, sobbing against Tantripp's arm. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- A signal legible to every sailor of all the fleets engaged in that fierce struggle was strung aloft upon the flagship. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Away at the landing stage, tiniest points of coloured rays were stringing themselves in the dusk. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A piano comprises five principal parts: first, the framing; second, the sounding board; third, the stringing; fourth, the key mechanism, or action, and fifth, the ornamental case. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
整理:鲁道夫