Meaning of 'string' (Webster Dictionary)
- 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.
- 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.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are
held together.
- 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.
- The line or cord of a bow.
- A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
- A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
- An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the
sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- 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.
- A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- Same as Stringcourse.
- The points made in a game.
- To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
- To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument,
in order to play upon it.
- To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
- To make tense; to strengthen.
- To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to
string beans. See String, n., 9.
Meaning of 'string' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
Example in sentence:- a strand of pearls;
- a string of beads
Meaning (2):
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
Example in sentence:- a string of islands;
- a train of thought;
- train of mourners
Meaning (3):
- a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
Example in sentence:- he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag
Meaning (4):
- stringed instruments that are played with a bow
Example in sentence:- the strings played superlatively well
Meaning (5):
- remove the stringy parts of
Meaning (6):
- provide with strings
Meaning (7):
- thread on or as if on a string
Example in sentence:- string pearls on a string;
- the child drew glass beads on a string;
- thread dried cranberries
Meaning (8):
- string together; tie or fasten with a string
Meaning (9):
- add as if on a string
Example in sentence:- string these ideas together;
- string up these songs and you'll have a musical
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