string

Meanings

• a lightweight cord
• stringed instruments that are played with a bow
  • "the strings played superlatively well"
• a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
• a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
  • "a string of islands"
• a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
• a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
  • "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag"
• a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
• (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
• a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
• a necklace made by a stringing objects together
  • "a string of beads"
• thread on or as if on a string
  • "string pearls on a string"
  • "the child drew glass beads on a string"
• add as if on a string
  • "string these ideas together"
  • "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
• move or come along
• stretch out or arrange like a string
• string together; tie or fasten with a string
  • "string the package"
• remove the stringy parts of
  • "string beans"
• provide with strings
  • "string my guitar"

Synonyms

bowed stringed instrument, chain, cosmic string, draw, drawing string, drawstring, strand, string along, string up, thread, train, twine