'String' definitions:
Definition of 'string'
From: WordNet
noun
A lightweight cord [syn: string, twine]
noun
Stringed instruments that are played with a bow; "the strings played superlatively well" [syn: bowed stringed instrument, string]
noun
A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
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" [syn: string, train]
noun
A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
noun
A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening; "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag" [syn: drawstring, drawing string, string]
noun
A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
noun
(cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop [syn: string, cosmic string]
noun
A collection of objects threaded on a single strand
noun
A necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"; [syn: chain, string, strand]
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" [syn: string, thread, draw]
verb
Add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical" [syn: string, string up]
verb
Move or come along [syn: string, string along]
verb
Stretch out or arrange like a string
verb
String together; tie or fasten with a string; "string the package"
verb
Remove the stringy parts of; "string beans"
verb
Provide with strings; "string my guitar" [ant: unstring]
Definition of 'String'
From: GCIDE
- String \String\ (str[i^]ng), n. [OE. string, streng, AS. streng; akin to D. streng, G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. str[aum]ng, Dan. straeng; probably from the adj., E. strong (see Strong); or perhaps originally meaning, twisted, and akin to E. strangle.]
- 1. 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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 string of islands." --Gibbon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. "An instrument of ten strings." --Ps. xxx. iii. 2. [1913 Webster]
- Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of lute, or viol still. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The line or cord of a bow. --Ps. xi. 2. [1913 Webster]
- He twangs the grieving string. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root. [1913 Webster]
- Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A nerve or tendon of an animal body. [1913 Webster]
- The string of his tongue was loosed. --Mark vii. 35. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Bot.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 10. (Mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. --Ure. [1913 Webster]
- 11. (Arch.) Same as Stringcourse. [1913 Webster]
- 12. (Billiards) The points made in a game. [1913 Webster]
- 13. (a) In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire. (b) In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 14. (Billiards & Pool) (a) 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. (b) Act of stringing for break. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 15. A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 16. a sequence of similar objects or events sufficiently close in time or space to be perceived as a group; a string of accidents; a string of restaurants on a highway. [PJC]
- 17. (Physics) A one-dimensional string-like mathematical object used as a means of representing the properties of fundamental particles in string theory, one theory of particle physics; such hypothetical objects are one-dimensional and very small (10^-33 cm) but exist in more than four spatial dimensions, and have various modes of vibration. Considering particles as strings avoids some of the problems of treating particles as points, and allows a unified treatment of gravity along with the other three forces (electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force) in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics. See also string theory. [PJC]
- String band (Mus.), a band of musicians using only, or chiefly, stringed instruments.
- String beans. (a) A dish prepared from the unripe pods of several kinds of beans; -- so called because the strings are stripped off. (b) Any kind of beans in which the pods are used for cooking before the seeds are ripe; usually, the low bush bean.
- To have two strings to one's bow, to have a means or expedient in reserve in case the one employed fails. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'String'
From: GCIDE
- String \String\, v. i. To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'String'
From: GCIDE
- String \String\ (str[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. Strung (str[u^]ng); p. p. Strung (R. Stringed (str[i^]ngd)); p. pr. & vb. n. Stringing.]
- 1. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin. [1913 Webster]
- Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street? --Gay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it. [1913 Webster]
- For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make tense; to strengthen. [1913 Webster]
- Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung him along all day until he realized we were kidding. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Synonyms of 'string'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- A string,
- age group,
- agree,
- Amati,
- array,
- articulation,
- atone,
- attune,
- authority,
- band,
- bank,
- bar,
- bass,
- bass viol,
- battalion,
- be continuous,
- bevy,
- bluff,
- body,
- boundary condition,
- bow,
- braid,
- brail,
- bridge,
- brigade,
- bull fiddle,
- bunch,
- buzz,
- cabal,
- cable,
- caravan,
- cast,
- catch,
- catches,
- catena,
- catenate,
- catenation,
- catgut,
- cavalcade,
- cello,
- chain,
- chain reaction,
- chaining,
- chaplet,
- cheat,
- choker,
- chord,
- clause,
- clique,
- cohort,
- collaborate,
- column,
- command,
- company,
- complement,
- concatenate,
- concatenation,
- concur,
- condition,
- conditions,
- connect,
- connect up,
- connection,
- consecution,
- contingent,
- continuate,
- continue,
- continuum,
- contrabass,
- control,
- cord,
- corps,
- cortege,
- coterie,
- course,
- covey,
- Cremona,
- crew,
- crowd,
- cycle,
- D string,
- deceive,
- delay,
- dernier ressort,
- descent,
- detachment,
- detail,
- division,
- dominate,
- domination,
- donnee,
- doorstep,
- double bass,
- drag out,
- drape,
- dress parade,
- drone,
- dupe,
- E string,
- echelon,
- eight,
- eleven,
- endless belt,
- endless round,
- entry,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- exception,
- exert influence,
- expedient,
- extend,
- faction,
- favorite,
- festoon,
- fiddle,
- fiddlebow,
- fiddlestick,
- fiddlestring,
- filament,
- file,
- filiation,
- fine print,
- fingerboard,
- first string,
- first team,
- five,
- fleet,
- flyover,
- follow,
- fool,
- footrest,
- footstep,
- form a series,
- funeral,
- G string,
- gamut,
- gang,
- given,
- go along with,
- gradation,
- grounds,
- group,
- grouping,
- groupment,
- hang,
- hoax,
- hold the reins,
- horsehair,
- hum,
- in-group,
- Indian file,
- join,
- joker,
- junta,
- jurisdiction,
- kicker,
- kit,
- kit fiddle,
- kit violin,
- lead,
- leader,
- leash,
- ligament,
- ligation,
- ligature,
- limitations,
- limiting condition,
- line,
- lineage,
- linguistic act,
- link,
- locution,
- loop,
- lynch,
- maintain continuity,
- makeshift,
- manipulate,
- march past,
- mastery,
- might,
- mob,
- monotone,
- motorcade,
- movement,
- mudder,
- mule train,
- necklace,
- nexus,
- nine,
- nylon string,
- obligation,
- operate,
- order,
- out-group,
- outfit,
- pack,
- pack train,
- parade,
- parameter,
- parol,
- parole,
- party,
- peer group,
- pendulum,
- periodicity,
- phalanx,
- phonation,
- plate horse,
- plater,
- platoon,
- plenum,
- pole horse,
- pomp,
- pony,
- posse,
- postpone,
- powder train,
- prerequisite,
- procession,
- progression,
- promenade,
- protract,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- pull the strings,
- put in tune,
- qualification,
- queue,
- race horse,
- racer,
- range,
- rank,
- reach,
- recourse,
- recurrence,
- refuge,
- regiment,
- requisite,
- reservation,
- reserves,
- resort,
- rest,
- reticulation,
- review,
- riser,
- rope,
- rotation,
- round,
- routine,
- row,
- rowing crew,
- run,
- run on,
- rundle,
- rung,
- salon,
- saving clause,
- scale,
- scroll,
- second string,
- second team,
- sequel,
- sequence,
- sequence of phonemes,
- series,
- set,
- shift,
- sine qua non,
- single file,
- skimmington,
- sling,
- small print,
- soundboard,
- speaking,
- specification,
- spectrum,
- speech act,
- spin out,
- spoke,
- spun yarn,
- squad,
- stable,
- stair,
- stake horse,
- staker,
- starter,
- stave,
- steel string,
- steeplechaser,
- step,
- step stool,
- stepping-stone,
- stipulation,
- stipulations,
- stopgap,
- Strad,
- Stradivari,
- Stradivarius,
- strand,
- stream,
- stretch,
- string along,
- string out,
- string together,
- string up,
- strings,
- strip,
- stripe,
- substitute,
- succession,
- suspend,
- swath,
- sway,
- team,
- tendon,
- tenor violin,
- term,
- terms,
- the spoken word,
- third string,
- thong,
- thread,
- tier,
- tone down,
- tone up,
- tongue,
- train,
- tread,
- tribe,
- trick,
- troop,
- troupe,
- tune,
- tune up,
- tuning peg,
- twine,
- twist,
- ultimatum,
- utterance,
- utterance string,
- varsity,
- viola,
- violin,
- violinette,
- violoncello,
- violoncello piccolo,
- violone,
- violotta,
- vocable,
- voice,
- whereas,
- windrow,
- wing,
- wire,
- word,
- word of mouth,
- wound string,
- wreath,
- yarn
Words containing 'String'
- Stringed,
- Stringing,
- string out,
- string up,
- strings,
- Kissing strings,
- Leading strings,
- String band,
- String beans,
- To be in leading strings,
- apron string,
- cosmic string,
- drawing string,
- first string,
- linguistic string,
- pull strings,
- purse string,
- second string,
- shoe string,
- string along,
- string bass,
- string bean,
- string cheese,
- string correspondent,
- string line,
- string of beads,
- string of words,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- string quartette,
- string section,
- string theory,
- string tie,
- stringed instrument,
- third string,
- word string,
- G-string,
- Navel-string,
- To harp on one string,
- bowed stringed instrument,
- first-string,
- second-string,
- To have two strings to one's bow,
- purse-string operation