Result from Foreign Dictionaries (5 entries found)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: String \String\ (str[i^]ng), n. [OE. string, streng, AS. streng; akin to D. streng, G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. str[aum]ng, Dan. straeng; probably from the adj., E. strong (see {Strong}); or perhaps originally meaning, twisted, and akin to E. strangle.] 1. 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. "A string of islands." --Gibbon. [1913 Webster] 3. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 4. 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. "An instrument of ten strings." --Ps. xxx. iii. 2. [1913 Webster] Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of lute, or viol still. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. The line or cord of a bow. --Ps. xi. 2. [1913 Webster] He twangs the grieving string. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 6. A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root. [1913 Webster] Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 7. A nerve or tendon of an animal body. [1913 Webster] The string of his tongue was loosed. --Mark vii. 35. [1913 Webster] 8. (Shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. [1913 Webster] 9. (Bot.) 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. [1913 Webster] 10. (Mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. --Ure. [1913 Webster] 11. (Arch.) Same as {Stringcourse}. [1913 Webster] 12. (Billiards) The points made in a game. [1913 Webster] 13. (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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 14. (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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 15. A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 16. a sequence of similar objects or events sufficiently close in time or space to be perceived as a group; a string of accidents; a string of restaurants on a highway. [PJC] 17. (Physics) A one-dimensional string-like mathematical object used as a means of representing the properties of fundamental particles in {string theory}, one theory of particle physics; such hypothetical objects are one-dimensional and very small (10^{-33} cm) but exist in more than four spatial dimensions, and have various modes of vibration. Considering particles as strings avoids some of the problems of treating particles as points, and allows a unified treatment of gravity along with the other three forces (electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force) in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics. See also {string theory}. [PJC] {String band} (Mus.), a band of musicians using only, or chiefly, stringed instruments. {String beans}. (a) A dish prepared from the unripe pods of several kinds of beans; -- so called because the strings are stripped off. (b) Any kind of beans in which the pods are used for cooking before the seeds are ripe; usually, the low bush bean. {To have two strings to one's bow}, to have a means or expedient in reserve in case the one employed fails. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street? --Gay. [1913 Webster] 2. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it. [1913 Webster] For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 3. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads. [1913 Webster] 4. To make tense; to strengthen. [1913 Webster] Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See {String}, n., 9. [1913 Webster] 6. To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung him along all day until he realized we were kidding. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: String \String\, v. i. To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: string n 1: a lightweight cord [syn: {string}, {twine}] 2: stringed instruments that are played with a bow; "the strings played superlatively well" [syn: {bowed stringed instrument}, {string}] 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" [syn: {string}, {train}] 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" [syn: {drawstring}, {drawing string}, {string}] 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 [syn: {string}, {cosmic string}] 9: a collection of objects threaded on a single strand 10: a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"; [syn: {chain}, {string}, {strand}] v 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" [syn: {string}, {thread}, {draw}] 2: add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical" [syn: {string}, {string up}] 3: move or come along [syn: {string}, {string along}] 4: stretch out or arrange like a string 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" [ant: {unstring}] From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: string /striŋ/ string