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Definition of String

1. Noun. A lightweight cord.

2. Verb. Thread on or as if on a string. "Thread dried cranberries"

3. Verb. Add as if on a string. "String up these songs and you'll have a musical"

4. Noun. Stringed instruments that are played with a bow. "The strings played superlatively well"

5. Verb. Move or come along.

6. Noun. A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed.

7. Verb. Stretch out or arrange like a string.

8. Noun. A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding. "A train of thought"

9. Verb. String together; tie or fasten with a string. "String the package"

10. Noun. A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases).

11. Verb. Remove the stringy parts of. "String beans"

12. Noun. A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening. "He pulled the drawstring and closed the bag"

13. Noun. A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod).

14. Verb. Provide with strings. "String my guitar"

15. Noun. (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop.

16. Noun. A collection of objects threaded on a single strand.

17. Noun. A necklace made by a stringing objects together. "A strand of pearls"

Definition of String

1. 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.

2. v. t. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.

3. n. In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.

4. v. t. To hoax; josh; jolly.

5. v. i. To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.

Definition of String

1. Noun. A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together. ¹

2. Noun. Such a structure considered as a substance. ¹

3. Noun. Any similar long, thin and flexible object. ¹

4. Noun. A cohesive substance taking the form of a string. ¹

5. Noun. A series of items or events. ¹

6. Noun. (countable computing) An ordered sequence of symbols or characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity. ¹

7. Noun. (music countable) A stringed instrument. ¹

8. Noun. (music usually in plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments. ¹

9. Noun. (in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively. (cf. no strings attached) ¹

10. Noun. (physics) the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics ¹

11. Noun. A slang term for cannabis or marijuana ¹

12. Noun. A minigame of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail. ¹

13. Verb. (transitive) To put (items) on a string. ¹

14. Verb. (transitive) To put strings on (something). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of String

1. to provide with strings (slender cords) [v STRUNG or STRINGED, STRINGING, STRINGS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of String

striketh strikethrough strikethroughs striking striking distance striking gold striking out striking through strikingly strikingness

strikings strim strimmer strimmers strimming string (current term) string-net string along string band string bands

string bean string beans string cheese string course string distance string distances string ensemble string hoppers string instrument

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