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StringString 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.
StringString 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
- Look up
string in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
String or
strings may
refer to:
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flexible structure made from
threads twisted...
- In
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STRING (Search Tool for the
Retrieval of
Interacting Genes/Proteins) is a
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- In physics,
string theory is a
theoretical framework in
which the point-like
particles of
particle physics are
replaced by one-dimensional
objects called...
- In
computer programming, a
string is
traditionally a
sequence of characters,
either as a
literal constant or as some kind of variable. The
latter may allow...
- In
musical instrument classification,
string instruments, or chordophones, are
musical instruments that
produce sound from
vibrating strings when a performer...
- The
banjo is a
stringed instrument with a thin
membrane stretched over a
frame or
cavity to form a resonator. The
membrane is
typically circular, in modern...
- In
mathematics and
computer science, a
string metric (also
known as a
string similarity metric or
string distance function) is a
metric that measures...
- A twelve-
string guitar (or 12-
string guitar) is a steel-
string guitar with 12
strings in six courses,
which produces a thicker, more
ringing tone than...
- One type of
thong is the G-
string, the back of
which consists only of a (typically elasticized)
string. The two
terms G-
string and
thong are
often used...
- A G-
string is a
garment consisting of a
narrow piece of
material that
barely covers the genitals, a
string-like
piece that p****es
between the buttocks...
