Definitions of string in various dictionaries:
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a lightweight cord
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stringed instruments that are played with a bow
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a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
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a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
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a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
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a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
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a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
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(cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
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a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
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a necklace made by a stringing objects together
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thread on or as if on a string
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add as if on a string
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move or come along
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stretch out or arrange like a string
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string together
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remove the stringy parts of
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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)