Definition of string

noun (n)

• a lightweight cord (noun.artifact)

  Synonym: twine
  

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

  Synonym: bowed stringed instrument
  

  Example:
  The strings played superlatively well.
  

  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)

  Synonym: train
  

  Example:
  A string of islands.
  

  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)

  Synonym: drawing string, drawstring
  

  Example:
  He pulled the drawstring and closed the bag.
  

  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)

  Synonym: chain, strand
  

  Example:
  A string of beads.
  

  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)

  Synonym: draw, thread
  

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

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

  Synonym: string up
  

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

  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)

  Antonym: unstring
  

  Example:
  String my guitar.
  

  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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