STRING
\stɹˈɪŋ], \stɹˈɪŋ], \s_t_ɹ_ˈɪ_ŋ]\
Definitions of STRING
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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stringed instruments that are played with a bow; "the strings played superlatively well"
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a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
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a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
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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"
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add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
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string together; tie or fasten with a string; "string the package"
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a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
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a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
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provide with strings; "string my guitar"
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remove the stringy parts of; "string beans"
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stretch out or arrange like a string
By Princeton University
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stringed instruments that are played with a bow; "the strings played superlatively well"
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a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
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a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
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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"
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add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
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thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"
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string together; tie or fasten with a string; "string the package"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
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In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
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In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
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Act of stringing for break.
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To hoax; josh; jolly.
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To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
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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.
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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.
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A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
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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.
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The line or cord of a bow.
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A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
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A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
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An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
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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.
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A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
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Same as Stringcourse.
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The points made in a game.
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To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
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To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
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To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
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To make tense; to strengthen.
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To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
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The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; - called also string line.
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A hoax; a trumped-up or fake story.
By Oddity Software
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To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
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In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
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In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
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Act of stringing for break.
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To hoax; josh; jolly.
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To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
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The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; - called also string line.
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A hoax; a trumped-up or fake story.
By Noah Webster.
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A small cord or line; the cord of a musical instrument; as, a violin string; a cord on which things are strung or arranged; as, a string of beads; a series of things in, or as in, a line; as, a string of cars.
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To form into cords or threads; stretch out into a line or series.
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Stringed.
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Strung.
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Stringing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Stringed.
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To suspend on a string.
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To fit with a string or strings.
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To stretch out into a long, irregular line.
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A slender line, thinner than a cord and thicker than a thread; a row or series of things connected.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Strung.
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A line or cord; a tape or ribbon used in fastening; twine; the chord of a musical instr.; a small fibre; a nerve; a tendon; a set or line of things; a series.
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To furnish with strings; to put upon a string; to fill.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A small cord or a slip of anything for tying: a ribbon: nerve, tendon: the chord of a musical instrument: a cord on which things are filed: a series of things.
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To supply with strings: to put in tune: to put on a string: to make tense or firm: to take the strings off:-pa.t. and pa.p. strung.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A small rope, line or cord used for fastening or tying anything; a ribbon; a thread on which a thing is filed; a line of things; the chord of a musical instrument, as of a harp; any wire; a fibre; a nerve or tendon; the line or cord of a bow; a series of things; among miners, a small filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
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To furnish with strings; to put in tune a stringed instrument; to file; to make tense; to strengthen; to deprive of strings. To have two strings to the bow, to have two expedients in store or objects in view.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic] A small or slender rope, line, or cord ; a ribbon ;- a thread on which any thing is filed ; and hence, a line of things; the cord of a musical instrument;-a nerve or tendon of an animal body ;-the cord of a bow ;-a series of things connected or following in succession.
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