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string

(str/I//N/ )

noun (n)

a lightweight cord(noun.artifact)

Synonym:
twine

source: wordnet30
stringed instruments that are played with a bow(noun.artifact)

Example:
The strings played superlatively well.

Synonym:
bowed stringed instrument

source: wordnet30
a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed(noun.artifact)

source: wordnet30
a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding(noun.group)

Example:
A string of islands.

Synonym:
train

source: wordnet30
a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)(noun.communication)

source: wordnet30
a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening(noun.artifact)

Example:
He pulled the drawstring and closed the bag.

Synonym:
drawing string, drawstring

source: wordnet30
a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)(noun.substance)

source: wordnet30
(cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop(noun.object)

Synonym:
cosmic string

source: wordnet30
a collection of objects threaded on a single strand(noun.artifact)

source: wordnet30
a necklace made by a stringing objects together(noun.artifact)

Example:
A string of beads.

Synonym:
chain, strand

source: wordnet30
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.(noun)

source: webster1913
In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.(noun)

source: webster1913

verb (v)

thread on or as if on a string(verb.contact)

Example:
String pearls on a string.
The child drew glass beads on a string.

Synonym:
draw, thread

source: wordnet30
add as if on a string(verb.change)

Example:
String these ideas together.
String up these songs and you'll have a musical.

Synonym:
string up

source: wordnet30
move or come along(verb.motion)

Synonym:
string along

source: wordnet30
stretch out or arrange like a string(verb.contact)

source: wordnet30
string together; tie or fasten with a string(verb.contact)

Example:
String the package.

source: wordnet30
remove the stringy parts of(verb.contact)

Example:
String beans.

source: wordnet30
provide with strings(verb.contact)

Example:
String my guitar.

Antonym:
unstring

source: wordnet30
To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.(verb)

source: webster1913
To hoax; josh; jolly.(verb)

source: webster1913
To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.(verb)

source: webster1913

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