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Strings

noun

1.

The section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments. Synonym: string section.

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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"Strings" Quotes from Famous Books

... he was leaving, a shy, big-eyed girl of ten had slid out from the shelter of her mother's poppy-patterned skirt, had proffered three strings of beads, and had fled. Luck had smiled his smile again—a smile of white, even teeth and so much good will that you immediately felt that he was your friend—and called her back to him. Luck was chief; and his commands were to be obeyed, instantly and implicitly; that much he had impressed deeply ...

— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower

... many strange countries, over marshes and valleys, he came at length before a castle. As he passed by he heard two little bells ringing, and looking up, he saw a falcon flying overhead, with bells tied to her feet, and long strings dangling from them. And as the falcon flew past an elm-tree, the strings caught in the boughs, so that ...

— The Legends Of King Arthur And His Knights • James Knowles

... upon, keep to it. "One thing I do," is a great rule to follow. It is much better to do one thing well than many things indifferently. It may be well to have "many strings to our bow," but it is better to have a bow and string that will every time send the arrow to the target. A rolling stone gathers no moss. He that is everything by turns and nothing long comes to ...

— Life and Conduct • J. Cameron Lees

... own life, when he was most affected by the emotions of the sublime was when he stood upon one of the summits of the Cordillera, and surveyed the magnificent prospect all around. It seemed, as he quaintly observed, as if his nerves had become fiddle strings, and had all taken to rapidly vibrating. This remark was only made incidentally, and the conversation passed into some other branch. About an hour afterwards Mr. Darwin retired to rest, while I sat up in the smoking-room ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin

... strike the strings Whence melody should flow, A harsh, unnatural discord rings, Of ...

— Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland • Abigail Stanley Hanna

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