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string

English

  1. 🔊 a lightweight cord
  2. 🔊 a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket
  3. 🔊 a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
  4. 🔊 a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.)
  5. 🔊 a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
    “a string of islands”
  6. 🔊 (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
  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. 🔊 stringed instruments that are played with a bow
    “the strings played superlatively well”
  9. 🔊 a necklace made by stringing objects together
    “a string of beads”
  10. 🔊 a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
    “he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag”
  11. 🔊 add as if on a string
    “string these ideas together”
  12. 🔊 provide with strings
    “string my guitar”
  13. 🔊 thread on or as if on a string
    “string pearls on a string”
  14. 🔊 remove the stringy parts of
    “string beans”
  15. 🔊 string together
    “string the package”
  16. 🔊 stretch out or arrange like a string
  17. 🔊 move or come along

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ristra string
  2. 🔊 retahíla string, series
  3. 🔊 cordelero string, rope, cord
  4. 🔊 sarta string, series, array
  5. 🔊 ensartar to string, thread (put items on a string)

Similar words

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