Definition of strings. Meaning of strings. Synonyms of strings

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Definition of strings

String
String String, n. 1. (a) In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire. (b) In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc. 2. (Billiards & Pool) (a) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; -- called also string line. (b) Act of stringing for break. 3. A hoax; a trumped-up or ``fake' story. [Slang]
String
String String, v. t. To hoax; josh; jolly. [Slang]
String
String String, v. i. To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
String
String String (str[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. Strung (str[u^]ng); p. p. Strung (R. Stringed (str[i^]ngd)); p. pr. & vb. n. Stringing.] 1. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin. Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street? --Gay. 2. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it. For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung. --Addison. 3. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads. 4. To make tense; to strengthen. Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood. --Dryden. 5. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.

Meaning of string from wikipedia

- string is a flexible piece of rope or twine which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects. examples of string use include:
- in molecular biology, string (search tool for the retrieval of interacting genes/proteins) is a biological database and web resource of
- string instruments are musical instrument s that produce sound from vibrating strings. in the hornbostel-sachs scheme of musical
- in computer programming , a string is traditionally a sequence of characters , either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable.
- the string section is the largest body of the standard orchestra and consists of bowed string instrument s of the violin family .
- in physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional
- a string is the vibrating element that produces sound in string instrument s such as the guitar , harp , piano , and members of the
- the violin is a string instrument , usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifth s. the violin family of string instruments, which
- a string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string playersusually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece
- a string orchestra is an orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family . these instruments are the violin