string
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
ball-games
billiards
biology
birdwatching
botany
business
carpentry
computing
construction
engineering
entertainment
games
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
masonry
mathematics
mining
music
natural-sciences
ornithology
physical-sciences
physics
pool
programming
sciences
shipbuilding
sports
Etymology: From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”).
Cognate with Scots string (“string”), Dutch streng (“cord, strand”), Low German strenge (“strand, cord, rope”), German Strang (“strand, cord, rope”), Danish streng (“string”), Swedish sträng (“string, cord, wire”), Icelandic strengur (“string”), Latvian stringt (“to be tight, wither”), Latin stringō (“to tighten”), Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “halter”), Ancient Greek στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).
Inflected forms:
form: strings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: strings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stringing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: strung
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stringed
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
past
form: strang
pos: verb
tags: past
form: strung
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stringed
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.
gloss: Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a violin string
a bowstring
gloss: Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a string of shells or beads
a string of sausages
a string of islands
gloss: A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive
gloss: A series of items or events.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In 1933, disgusted and discouraged after a string of commercial failures, Clara quit the film business forever. She was twenty-six.
a string of successes
gloss: A slightly elevated (long, thin) peat ridge in a bog.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Strings and Flarks[:] The two most conspicuous land form patterns in water tracks are fields of tree islands and networks of strings and flarks. The origin of strings and flarks is a controversial subject that has been treated extensively[…]
[…] strings and flarks are again aligned along the contours, but the flarks are much wider and are often drier. Where the flarks are flooded they are curiously reminiscent of a system of terraced paddy fields […]
[…] strings and flarks is scarcely noticeable and it is the intermediate level (relative to the water table) between the higher, drier strings, and the low, wet flarks, which dominates. Such mires have an almost continuous cover of sedges[…]
gloss: The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
uncountable
gloss: An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A stringed instrument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
metonymically
gloss: The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
gloss: The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
in-plural
uncountable
examples: no strings attached
But he added: "The RDG offer contains more strings than a harp, including some which have never previously been discussed. It also omits significant points that had previously been negotiated."
gloss: A tiny one-dimensional string-like entity, the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Cannabis or marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Part of the game 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: The points made in a game of billiards.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: 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; also called the string line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many of those that pretend to be great Rabbies in these studies have scarce saluted them from the strings, and the titlepage.
gloss: A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
gloss: A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: The string of his tongue was loosed.
gloss: A board supporting steps
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the strings of beans
gloss: A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a single miner is often found pursuing his solitary labours at a string or thin vein of ore
gloss: A stringcourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hoax; a fake story.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: They were turning tricks, doing drugs, and generally little better off than they had been before, except that they were keeping more of their money. But they seemed lonely, too, without the company of their pimp and the rest of his string.
gloss: A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (using the mud pumps) and torque (using the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To put (items) on a string.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
gloss: To put strings on (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.
gloss: To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
pos: verb
examples: To be honest, you'd be better off trying to string a Skylark as a Richard's Pipit rather than as a Pectoral Sandpiper.
For instance he might see a White-eared Honeyeater, a not uncommon bird in the heathy areas at Bunyip, but in his excitement to call it, something in his brain scrambled and came out as: `White-cheeked Honeyeater!' White-cheeked Honeyeater is an absolute stonking crippler in Victoria, but Stu was not actually trying to string a rarity, he'd just got such a flood of new information swirling around his brain that sometimes it got jumbled up.
Synonyms: string
Related words: string along
stringed
string out
string up
Derived words: aerosol string
another string to one's bow
apron string
apron-string
apron-string hold
bandstring
banjo string
bit string
bitstring
bonnetstring
bootstring
bytestring
capstring
casing string
checkstring
completion string
connection string
C-string
C-style string
destring
dickstring
Dirac string
docstring
double-string
drawstring
drill string
eggstring
empty string
eyestring
eye-string
fiddlestring
first-string
first string
format string
four-string
four-string banjo
four-string guitar
gob-string
G-string
G string
gutstring
hairstring
hame string
hamstring
harp on one string
harp on the same string
harpstring
hatstring
have the world on a string
have two strings to one's bow
heart strings
here-string
hold the purse strings
how long is a piece of string
hyperstring
idiot string
interstring
keystring
kissing string
latchstring
leading-string
leading strings
lifestring
linestring
longbowstringmaker
loosen the apron strings
loosen the purse strings
marriage string
metastring
midstring
ministring
misstring
mountain string
multistring
nanostring
navel-string
navel string
no string attached
no-strings-attached
no strings attached
nylon-string
nylon-string guitar
on a string
Pascal string
protostring
pull a few strings
pullstring
pull strings
pull the string
pursestring
purse string
push string uphill
query string
red string of fate
rough string
second-string
shirring string
shoestring
silly string
single-string
six-string
slipstring
spaghetti string
steel-string guitar
steel string guitar
strimmer
stringable
string attached
stringbacks
string band
string bass
string bassist
string bean
stringbed
string bet
string bikini
string bog
stringbush
string cheese
string citation
string course
string distance
string ensemble
stringful
string hoppers
stringification
string instrument
string instrumentalist
stringization
stringize
stringkini
stringless
stringlike
stringline
stringmaker
stringmaking
string-net
string of beads
string of pearls
string-of-sausage lichen
stringology
string orchestra
string organ
string pea
string plate
string player
string quartet
string quintet
strings attached
string saver
string sedge
string show
string stop
string substitution
string tanga
string theoretic
string tie
string together
string to one's bow
string trimmer
string trio
string vest
string with
stringy
substring
superstring
sympathetic string
third string
third-string
three-string
tighten the purse strings
triple-string
two-string
unstring
wordstring
worm on a string
restring
string on
stringer
stringified
stringifier
stringify
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 弦
roman: xián
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 琴弦
roman: qínxián
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 弓弦
roman: gōngxián
lang: Finnish
word: nauha
lang: Finnish
word: kieli
lang: Finnish
word: jänne
lang: Greek
word: χορδή
roman: chordí
lang: Hindi
word: डोर
roman: ḍor
lang: Hindi
word: डोरी
roman: ḍorī
lang: Hindi
word: धागा
roman: dhāgā
lang: Hungarian
word: szál
lang: Hungarian
word: rost
lang: Hungarian
word: húr
lang: Hungarian
word: cipőfűző
lang: Italian
word: corda
lang: Japanese
word: 弦
roman: gen
lang: Japanese
word: 弓弦
roman: bowstring
lang: Latvian
word: stīga
lang: Polish
word: struna
lang: Romanian
word: coardă
lang: Romanian
word: strună
lang: Russian
word: струна́
roman: struná
lang: Russian
word: тетива́
roman: tetivá
lang: Russian
word: ни́тка
roman: nítka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: teud
lang: Slovak
word: struna
lang: Slovak
word: tetiva
lang: Spanish
word: floema
lang: Tagalog
word: bagting