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string

US/stɹɪŋ/ common slang
noun (8) verb (7)

noun

1.

a lightweight cord

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2.

stringed instruments that are played with a bow

  • “the strings played superlatively well”
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3.

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

4.

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”
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5.

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

6.

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

  • “he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag”
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7.

a collection of objects threaded on a single strand

8.

a necklace made by a stringing objects together

  • “a string of beads”
  • “a strand of pearls”
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verb

1.

thread on or as if on a string

  • “string pearls on a string”
  • “the child drew glass beads on a string”
  • “thread dried cranberries”
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2.

add as if on a string

  • “string these ideas together”
  • “string up these songs and you”
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3.
4.
5.

string together; tie or fasten with a string

  • “string the package”
6.

remove the stringy parts of

  • “string beans”
7.

provide with strings

  • “string my guitar”
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Origin

From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”). Cognate with Scots string (“string”), Dutch streng (“cord, strand”), Low German strenge (“strand, cord, rope”), German Strang (“strand, cord, rope”), Danish streng (“string”), Swedish sträng (“string, cord, wire”), Icelandic strengur (“string”), Latvian stringt (“to be tight, wither”), Latin stringō (“to tighten”), Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “halter”), Ancient Greek στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).

Phrases

  • aerosol string
  • another string to one's bow
  • apron string
  • apron-string hold
  • banjo string
  • bit string
  • casing string
  • completion string
  • string along
  • string on
  • string out
  • string up

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