WordNet
n. the section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments [syn: strings]
Wikipedia
The string section is the largest body of a single instrument category in the standard Classical orchestra. It normally consists of the first violins, the second violins, the violas, the cellos, and the double basses (or basses). The first and second violinists play the same types of instruments; the difference between the two sections is in the types of musical lines that are typically given to each section. The first violins are generally given the melody or higher-pitch musical lines, whereas the second violins generally play a part that is lower in pitch than the first violins. The second violins may play a harmony part, a countermelody or an accompaniment passage. In discussions of the instrumentation of a musical work, the phrase "the strings" or "and strings" is used to indicate a string section as just defined. An orchestra consisting solely of a string section is called a string orchestra. Smaller string sections are used in jazz, pop and rock music arrangements and in musical theatre pit orchestras.
Usage examples of "string section".
In the last part of the string section, a black-haired youth takes a clean gray cloth and blots his forehead quickly before replacing the cloth and repositioning his bow.
The string section we're aiming for now is way to hell and gone out by the orbit of Mars.
This particular arrangement of the song had been performed by an orchestra with a large string section.
The boats in the bay were part of it, and the string section of crickets in the baking grass, and the ice melting in our lemonade glasses.
As gleamingly brown from the LA sun as any of the cellos in his string section, he kept on his black overcoat with the astrakhan collar because he hadn't adjusted to the cold March weather.
Its voice sounded like a low wind interpreted by the string section in an orchestra.
The string section was playing a single chord, endlessly repeated in a thumping rhythm - Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'.
Chizu and Yayoi, her flatmates, who were also in the orchestra string section, talked of a previous trip to the States, when they'd been students.
It was joined by the sound of a string section: cellos and electronic basses.