Definition of String

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String

In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.

In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.

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.

Act of stringing for break.

A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.

To hoax; josh; jolly.

To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.

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.

To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.

To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.

To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.

To make tense; to strengthen.

To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.

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String Quotations

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
Spike Milligan

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Gertrude Stein

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
Yo-Yo Ma

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.
Les Paul

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
Henrik Ibsen

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

String Translations

string in Danish is snor, reb
string in Dutch is koorde, stemband, snaar
string in German is Zeichenfolge, aufreihen, bespannen (mit Saiten)
string in Italian is spago, cordicella
string in Latin is ligamen, funiculus
string in Norwegian is reip, tau
string in Portuguese is corda

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