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Definition of First-string

1. Adjective. Of members of a team; not substitutes.

2. Adjective. Being a regular member of a team. "First-string players"

Definition of First-string

1. Adjective. describing the members of a sports team who play regularly at the start of a match (rather than being substituted on) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of First-string

first-order spectrum first-party first-past-the-post first-person first-person plural first-person plurals first-person shooter first-person shooters first-person singular first-person singulars

first-place finish first-rate first-rater first-set rejection first-string (current term) first-stringer first-teamer first-time first-time buyer first-time buyers

first-year first aid first aid kit first aid kits first among equals first and foremost first and last first annual first appearance

Literary usage of First-string

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1903)
"The late Richard Henry Savage in a literary way may be summed as the Home Publishing Company's "second string" ; the "first string" being, of course, ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"This depression of the first string, if a thick string be used, is not unfavourable to sonority. When the scordatura is used, suitable strings should be ..."

3. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"Tune the first string to note made at third fret on the second string. Press the first string at fifth fret and tune fifth string in unison. ..."

4. Ole Bull by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull, Alpheus Benning Crosby (1882)
"After this advance the hand on the finger-board to the whole-shift, with the first finger upon A on the first string, and accustom yourself to this position ..."

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