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.
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 strip, as of leather, by which the covers
of a book are held together.
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.
The line or cord of a bow.
A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous
root.
A nerve or tendon of an animal
body.
An inside range of
ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and
bolted to it.
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.
A small, filamentous
ramification of a metallic vein.
Same as
Stringcourse.
The points made in a
game.
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