string

Definitions of string in various dictionaries:

noun - a lightweight cord

noun - stringed instruments that are played with a bow

noun - a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed

noun - a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding

noun - a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)

noun - a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening

noun - a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)

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

noun - a collection of objects threaded on a single strand

noun - a necklace made by a stringing objects together

verb - thread on or as if on a string

verb - add as if on a string

verb - move or come along

verb - stretch out or arrange like a string

verb - string together

verb - remove the stringy parts of

verb - provide with strings

A cord usually made of fiber, used for fastening, tying, or lacing.

Something configured as a long, thin line: limp strings of hair.

A plant fiber.

A set of objects threaded together: a string of beads.

A series of similar or related acts, events, or items arranged or falling in or as if in a line.

A set of consecutive characters treated by a computer as a single item.

Informal.

A set of animals, especially racehorses, belonging to a single owner; a stable.

A scattered group of businesses under a single ownership or management: a string of boutiques.

A group of players ranked according to ability within a team: He made the second string.

Music.

A cord stretched on an instrument and struck, plucked, or bowed to produce tones.

The section of a band or an orchestra composed of stringed instruments.

Stringed instruments or their players considered as a group.

Architecture.

A stringboard.

A stringcourse.

The balk line in billiards.

A complete game consisting of ten frames in bowling.

A limiting or hidden condition: a gift with no strings attached.

To fit or furnish with strings or a string: string a guitar.

To thread on a string.

To arrange in a string or series.

To fasten, tie, or hang with a string or strings.

To stretch out or extend: string a wire across a room.

To strip (vegetables) of fibers.

To form strings or become stringlike.

To extend or progress in a string, line, or succession.

To go along with something; agree.

To keep (someone) waiting or in a state of uncertainty.

To kill (someone) by hanging.

verb - to provide with strings (slender cords)