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Meaning string meaning

What does string mean?
Definitions in simple English

string Noun

— Another name for marijuana.

string Verb

— To string something is to put it on a string or line. The beads can be strung to make a necklace.

string

— noun a lightweight cord — noun stringed instruments that are played with a bow the strings played superlatively well — noun a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed — verb (= thread, draw) thread on or as if on a string string pearls on a string the child drew glass beads on a string thread dried cranberries — noun a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases) — noun (= train) a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding a string of islands train of mourners a train of thought — verb (= string up) add as if on a string string these ideas together string up these songs and you'll have a musical — noun (= drawstring) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag — noun a collection of objects threaded on a single strand — 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 — verb remove the stringy parts of string beans — verb string together; tie or fasten with a string string the package — verb stretch out or arrange like a string — verb provide with strings string my guitar — verb move or come along — noun (= strand) a necklace made by a stringing objects together a string of beads a strand of pearls

Synonyms string synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as string?

string English » English

rope cord thread twine line band tie yarn series chain lace strand row chord wire train sequence ribbon knot fibre bunch tape succession stripe fiber vine thin rope strap sinew file cable stringed instrument string up string along filament drawstring drawing string draw cluster bowed stringed instrument bind yoke vein tissue tie up tether tendon stringer spoon spade

Topics string topics

What do people use string to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Music

Musical instrument
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Work and occupation Occupation Working with cloth

Spinning thread
Work and occupation Occupation Crafts

Weaving baskets and mats
Work and occupation Tool

Carrying tool
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Arrange Tie

Rope, string
Physical actions Arrange Put

Load, pile
Social behavior Social activity Music

Musician
States Quantity Plural

Group of things
States Time Relative time Order, sequence

Series

Conjugation string conjugation

How do you conjugate string?

string · verb

Examples string examples

How do I use string in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I have to -- oh God oh great -- remember such a string of numbers, great famous Archimedes, help the suffering, give him the power, let him recite by heart those famous, and yet for us irritating, ah, numbers of Ludolph!
This guitar is missing a string.
Pull the string and the water flushes.
Tom attached the string to the kite.
The string is very weak.
Give me a knife to cut this string with.
This string is strong.
Someone has cut my kite string.
She was lying on the floor, strangled by a harp string.
Her heart has been hardening all throughout her string of bad hookups.
Specialists are people who have only one string on their violin.
A string quartet is rehearsing in the next room.
Trust yourself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
I have to change a string on the guitar.
She tied up the parcel with string.
I broke a string on my guitar.
The townsfolk were convinced that the string of murders was tied to a satanic cult.
She's wearing only pasties and a G-string.
Tom attached a string to the kite.

Movie subtitles

Penelope declares to wish to marry he among the suitors who is capable to string the bow of Ulysses.
Listen, children. All we got to do is to string a little wire.
Just string along behind 'em, and ifthey make it through, you'll find your valley.
Boxes with flowers, and pink lampshades. string orchestra and I don't know.. Willow plumes, Inverness capes. dry champagne and snow on the ground.
The most sensational jewel robbery of a decade the disappearance of a two-million franc string of pearls from Duvalle and Company, the famous jewellers, still goes unsolved.
It's changed into a string of pearls.
But it didn't change into a string of pearls, it changed into this.
Why, I helped string the first wire that run west out of Albuquerque.
Are you still harping on that same old string?
What's this string doing here? Hey, that's the choke!
Where are we going? Don't ask questions, pull that string!
String him up again!
I'm pulling every string I can.
Penny, we can make up a lot of these before the Fourth of July and sell them for 10 cents a string.
I'll string the rest of you up on the yard!
String along behind them and, if they make it through, you'll find your valley.
And furthermore, my E-string has snapped.
For us you can even play without the E-string.
Maybe I can get you another string of beads.
You wouldn't want to be badgered with a string of questions. Where have I been this afternoon?
If I'm suffocating. I pull the string. The tin falls. the others pull me out by the legs.
Well, you string along with me and a year from now you'll have enough money to buy 1 0 farms.
I'm pulling every string I can. I'm seeing the right people.
But, Doctor, you took my E string.
To swing around your head on a string.
It's good and long. It's my kite string.
The men want to string him up tonight.
All I done was pull that string.
I wish I were a woman of 36, dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
He's tied with string and had something across his mouth.
You bring the poles, you the string and you the paper.
And you say there's a string of six mines?
If you can't keep that hat on, I'll put a string under your chin like your grandmother used to wear.

News and current affairs

Moreover, the LDP was plagued by a string of minor scandals and consistent bungling.
Pundits agree this is merely the latest in a string of IMF-led bailouts that squandered billions of dollars and failed to save the economies they were meant to help.
Will the United States ever face a bill for the string of massive trade deficits that it has been running for more than a decade?
The failure of Long Term Capital Management a few years ago provided a lesson about risk management and the need to not be dreamy-eyed about a string of huge returns.
It is as if the string section of the orchestra suddenly decided to play its own music, disregarding everyone else.
Critics point to the string of economic crises in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in recent years, often attributing them to multilateral lenders' demands for full liberalization of foreign trade and capital flows, privatization, and fiscal austerity.
John Maynard Keynes once said that monetary policy may work like a string.
A central bank can pull the string (raise interest rates) to rein in an economy that is galloping ahead unsustainably.
But it cannot push the string up: if economic growth stalls, as when confidence is seriously damaged, lowering interest rates may not be enough to stimulate demand.
He might find himself pushing on a string.
In Europe and the West, there is the string of terrorist acts - from those on the US in 2001 to the pre-election bombings in Madrid - to think about.
White hair, brown dress, a crucifix on a string - she was my small guardian angel, given to me for nothing.
Similarly, in his 2007 book Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law, Peter Woit accused physicists of much the same sin as mathematical economists are said to commit.
Indeed, the interim agreement should be viewed as another in a string of recent Russian diplomatic victories over the US.
To be sure, if this new truce is merely technical, if efforts are not made to stabilize and consolidate it, it could become just one another in a long string of bitter episodes.
There will always be statistical flukes in the data, just as any series of coin tosses can produce an unexpected string of seven heads in a row.
John Maynard Keynes once said that monetary policy may work like a string. A central bank can pull the string (raise interest rates) to rein in an economy that is galloping ahead unsustainably.
Evidently, US authorities believe that in some situations geopolitics trump economics (reflected, for example, in the IMF's recent re-entry into Ukraine after a string of failed programs).
PALO ALTO - Barack Obama's administration suffered a string of fiscal setbacks this summer.
And so, despite headline-grabbing advances such as string theory, it goes to this very day.
China's state-run Xinhua news agency recently reported on a government investigation into a string of forced sterilizations and abortions in the village of Linyi, Shandong province.
The example they famously used was that of a Mozart string quartet, which requires the same number of musicians and instruments in modern times as it did in the nineteenth century.
A particularly telling example is the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars of the early nineteenth century, when a string of exhausted states defaulted on their obligations.
On the economic front, Haiti can become a profitable exporter of tropical crops such as groundnuts, mangos, cut flowers, string beans, and bamboo - a source of progress among Haiti's Caribbean-basin neighbors.

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