Word: String
How to pronounce: strɪŋ
Noun
Definitions:
1. Material consisting of threads of cotton, hemp, or other material twisted together to form a thin length.
Example sentences: "Unwieldy packs tied up with string"
2. A set of things tied or threaded together on a thin cord.
Example sentences: "She wore a string of agates around her throat"
3. A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food, such as a tough elongated piece connecting the two halves of a bean pod.
Example sentences: "Cut the melon in halves, spoon out the seeds and strings."
4. Short for stringboard
5. A hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having the dynamical properties of a flexible loop.
Example sentences: "String theory is a quantum theory where the fundamental objects are one dimensional strings and not pointlike particles."
Verb
Definitions:
1. Hang (something) so that it stretches in a long line.
Example sentences: "Lights were strung across the promenade"
2. Fit a string or strings to (a musical instrument, a racket, or a bow)
Example sentences: "The harp had been newly strung"
3. Remove the strings from (a bean).
4. Another term for lag (sense 2 of the verb)
Synonyms:
lace
twine
chord
cord
bowstring
rope
drawstring
wire
lacing
line
row
column
file
thread
strand
sequence
consecution
progression
string instrument
stringed instrument
series
chain
range
draw
Derivations:
stringed
stringing
stringy
stringer
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String in Other Languages...
Spanish: Cadena
German: Zeichenfolge
French: Chaîne
Italian: Stringa
Turkish: Dize
