String
[strɪŋ]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Simon--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Editor: Madge
Definition
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.
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Examples
- The explanation of this is, that a string may vibrate in a number of different ways. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I wish you could string them through. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Oh dear me, I must get some string, or silk, or—Oh, she cried, struck with a sudden thought, have you a knife? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- 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. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- If the string vibrates as a whole merely, the tone given out is simple, and seems dull and characterless. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There was no speaking among the string of riders. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- An improved and extended string telephone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They cut his bed-strings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Of such melodious strings is Miss Pleasant Riderhood formed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There were light boxes on shelves in the counting-house, and strings of mock beads hanging up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Far down the lake were fantastic pale strings of colour, like beads of wan fire, green and red and yellow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- All these strings intertwining made Pancks a very cable of anchorage that night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A song played on tuning forks instead of on strings would be lifeless and unsatisfying because of the absence of overtones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- At the far eastern confine a strange cavalcade strung, in single file, over the brow of a low hill. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The man's body, strung to its efforts, vibrated strongly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She wore no hat in the heated cafe, her loose, simple jumper was strung on a string round her neck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This was too much for Dorothea's highly-strung feeling, and she burst into tears, sobbing against Tantripp's arm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A signal legible to every sailor of all the fleets engaged in that fierce struggle was strung aloft upon the flagship. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Away at the landing stage, tiniest points of coloured rays were stringing themselves in the dusk. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Rudolf