string /string/

1. A small cord or a piece of it
2. Cord of any size
3. A hangman's rope
4. A piece of anything for tying
5. Anything of similar character, such as a tendon, nerve or fibre
6. A leash
7. A shoelace (N American)
8. A stretched piece of catgut, silk, wire, or other material in a musical instrument
9. (in pl) the stringed instruments played by a bow in an orchestra or other combination
10. (in pl) their players
11. The cord of an archery bow
12. In theoretical physics, a minute, one-dimensional entity in space (see string theory below)
13. The thread of a necklace or the like
14. Anything on which things are threaded
15. A filing cord
16. A set of things threaded together or arranged as if threaded
17. A train, succession, file, or series
18. A sequence of alphanumeric characters (computing)
19. (of horses, camels, etc) a drove or number
20. A long bunch
21. The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept (billiards)
22. Hence, the score itself
23. A sloping joist supporting the steps in wooden stairs
24. A string course
25. A hoax (slang)
26. (in pl) awkward or undesirable conditions or limitations

Of, like or for string or strings

1. To fit or furnish with a string or strings
2. To put in tune (poetic)
3. To make tense or firm
4. To tie up
5. To hang
6. To extend like a string
7. To put on or in a string
8. To take the strings or stringy parts off
9. To hoax, humbug (slang)

1. To stretch out into a long line
2. To form into strings
3. (of glues, etc) to become stringy
4. To be hanged (Scot)
5. (in billiards) to drive the ball against the end of the table and back, to decide who is to begin

stringed /stringd/ adjective

1. Having strings
2. Of stringed instruments

stringer /stringˈər/ noun

1. Someone who or that which strings
2. A horizontal member in a framework (architecture)
3. An interior horizontal plank, supporting the beam-ends of a ship (nautical)
4. A narrow mineral vein
5. A journalist employed part-time by a newspaper or news agency to cover a particular (esp remote) town or area

stringˈily adverb

stringˈiness noun

stringˈing noun

stringˈless adjective

stringˈy adjective

1. Consisting of, or abounding in, strings or small threads
2. Fibrous
3. Capable of being drawn into strings
4. Like string or a stringed instrument

string-bagˈ noun

A bag made of string, or (stringˈ-bag) for holding string

string band noun

A band of stringed instruments

string bass noun

A double bass

string bean noun

The French bean

stringˈboard noun

A board facing the well hole of a staircase, and receiving or covering the ends of the steps

string course noun

A projecting horizontal course of bricks or line of mouldings running quite along the face of a building

string figure noun

A structure of string looped around the fingers in a symmetrical pattern that can be altered by manipulation, as in cat's-cradle

string orchestra noun

A small orchestra of stringed instruments

string pea noun

A pea with edible pods

string piece noun

1. A long, heavy, usu horizontal timber used to support a framework
2. The string of a staircase

string quartet noun

1. A musical ensemble of two violins, a viola and a cello
2. Music for such an ensemble

string theory noun (physics)

1. The theory that all fundamental particles in the cosmos arise from strings (invisibly small, one-dimensional, elastic entities) and that the characteristic properties of each particle are determined by the vibration and rotation of the string, much in the same way as the tension, etc of a violin string determines the sound produced
2. Further developed as superstring theory a supersymmetrical version of the original theory

string tie noun

A narrow necktie of uniform width

string vest noun

A vest made of a netlike fabric

stringˈy-bark noun

One of a class of Australian eucalypts with very fibrous bark

highly-strung see under high¹

more than one string to one's bow

(capable of or expert in) more than one area of knowledge, function, etc

no strings or no strings attached

With no conditions or limitations (noˈ-strings adjective)

• faithed
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• faithfulness
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• faith healer
• faith healers
• faith healing
• faithing
• faithless
• faithlessly
• faithlessness
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• faith school
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• faithworthiness
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• faithworthy
• faitor
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• faitour
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