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Meaning of STRING in English

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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    Meaning of STRING in English

    • 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.
    • 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 strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
    • 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.
    • The line or cord of a bow.
    • A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
    • A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
    • An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
    • 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.
    • A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
    • Same as Stringcourse.
    • The points made in a game.
    • To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
    • To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
    • To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
    • To make tense; to strengthen.
    • To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.

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