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String

noun

1.

A lightweight cord. Synonym: twine.

2.

Stringed instruments that are played with a bow. Synonym: bowed stringed instrument.

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. Synonym: train. "Train of mourners" , "A train of thought"

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. Synonyms: drawing string, drawstring.

7.

A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod).

8.

(cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop. Synonym: cosmic string.

9.

A collection of objects threaded on a single strand.

10.

A necklace made by a stringing objects together. Synonyms: chain, strand. "A strand of pearls"

verb

(past strung; past part. strung, rare stringed; pres. part. stringing)

1.

Thread on or as if on a string. Synonyms: draw, thread. "The child drew glass beads on a string" , "Thread dried cranberries"

2.

Add as if on a string. Synonym: string up. "String up these songs and you'll have a musical"

3.

Move or come along. Synonym: string along.

4.

Stretch out or arrange like a string.

5.

String together; tie or fasten with a string.

6.

Remove the stringy parts of.

7.

Provide with strings. Antonym: unstring.

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— The Two Shipmates • William H. G. Kingston

... method consisted, essentially, in achieving aesthetic unity by a process of rigorous exclusion of all that was not germane to an arbitrary (because non-aesthetic) argument. This argument was let down like a string into the saturated solution of the consciousness until a unified crystalline structure congregated about it. Of all great artists of the past Shakespeare is the richest in his departures from this method. How much deliberate artistic purpose there was in his employment ...

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