string

1. n. A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string. Source: opted

2. n. A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments. Source: opted

3. n. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. Source: opted

4. n. The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme. Source: opted

5. n. The line or cord of a bow. Source: opted

6. n. A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root. Source: opted

7. n. A nerve or tendon of an animal body. Source: opted

8. n. An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. Source: opted

9. n. The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans. Source: opted

10. n. A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. Source: opted

11. n. Same as Stringcourse. Source: opted

12. n. The points made in a game. Source: opted

13. v. t. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin. Source: opted

14. v. t. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it. Source: opted

15. v. t. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads. Source: opted

16. v. t. To make tense; to strengthen. Source: opted

17. v. t. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9. Source: opted

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