String

English word definition — powered by WordNet

NOUN

a lightweight cord

stringed instruments that are played with a bow

a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket

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

a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.)

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

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 stringing objects together

VERB

thread on or as if on a string

add as if on a string

move or come along

stretch out or arrange like a string

string together

remove the stringy parts of

provide with strings

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