Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word STRING

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Definitions of STRING

1. 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.
2. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
3. (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
4. (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
5. (countable) A series of items or events.
6. (countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
7. (countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
8. (collective) A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
9. (countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
10. (music, metonym, countable) A stringed instrument.
11. (music, usually, in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
12. (figurative, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
13. (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
14. (billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
15. (historical, billiards) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
16. (billiards, by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.
17. (billiards, pool) 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; also called the string line.
18. (archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
19. (archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
20. (carpentry) A board supporting steps
21. (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
22. (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
23. (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
24. (architecture, masonry) A stringcourse.
25. (dated, slang) A hoax; a fake story.
26. (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
27. (transitive) To put strings on (something).
28. (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
29. (intransitive, billiards) To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
30. (birdwatching) To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
31. (countable, physics) A tiny one-dimensional string-like entity, the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
32. (countable, uncountable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
33. (slang) Synonym of stable
34. (oil drilling) A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (using the mud pumps) and torque (using the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.

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Examples of Using STRING in a Sentence

• The language extensively uses the string datatype, associative arrays (that is, arrays indexed by key strings), and regular expressions.
• Since producing low pitches usually requires a long air column or string, and for stringed instruments, a large hollow body, the string and wind bass instruments are usually the largest instruments in their families or instrument classes.
• It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length.
• An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the modern steel-string acoustic and electric guitars, both of which use metal strings.
• Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.
• He wrote and acted in the rock satire This Is Spinal Tap (1984), and later directed a string of satirical mockumentary films such as Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For Your Consideration (2006), and Mascots (2016).
• where A, B, and C are nonterminal symbols, the letter a is a terminal symbol (a symbol that represents a constant value), S is the start symbol, and ε denotes the empty string.
• Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars.
• Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols, each of which can take on one of only a finite number of values from some alphabet, such as letters or digits.
• In duodecimal, the number twelve is denoted "10", meaning 1 twelve and 0 units; in the decimal system, this number is instead written as "12" meaning 1 ten and 2 units, and the string "10" means ten.
• The bass is a standard member of the orchestra's string section, along with violins, violas, and cellos, as well as the concert band, and is featured in concertos, solo, and chamber music in Western classical music.
• The phrase "Heath Robinson contraption" perhaps most commonly describes temporary fixes using ingenuity and whatever is to hand, often string and tape, or unlikely cannibalisations.
• The holographic principle is a property of string theories and a supposed property of quantum gravity that states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a lower-dimensional boundary to the region – such as a light-like boundary like a gravitational horizon.
• Pitched musical instruments are often based on an acoustic resonator such as a string or a column of air, which oscillates at numerous modes simultaneously.
• Musical instruments of the Indian subcontinent can be broadly classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs system into four categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) and idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments).
• In physics, Kaluza–Klein theory (KK theory) is a classical unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism built around the idea of a fifth dimension beyond the common 4D of space and time and considered an important precursor to string theory.
• The term also refers generally to any necked string instrument having the strings running in a plane parallel to the sound table (in the Hornbostel–Sachs system).
• A variety of string types are used, with steel strings being the most common and usually the least expensive.
• But even so, there are far more systems just that, for instance in professional country music, the Nashville Number System is the main method, and for string instruments such as guitar, it is quite common for tablature to be used by players.
• He was known for his string of love affairs with actresses, models, and singers, and his private life was often covered in the international press.

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