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string
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a lightweight cord [syn: twine ] stringed instruments that are played with a bow; "the strings played superlatively well" [syn: bowed stringed instrument ] a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed a sequentially ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
String \String\ (str[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. Strung (str[u^]ng); p. p. Strung (R. Stringed (str[i^]ngd)); p. pr. & vb. n. Stringing .] To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin. Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet With firmest nerves, designed ...
Usage examples of string.
Malink was hurling a string of native curses at Abo, who looked as if he would burst into tears any second.
We would need an accelerator to slam matter together with energies some million billion times more powerful than any previously constructed in order to reveal directly that a string is not a point-particle.
As our most powerful particle accelerators can reach energies only on the order of a thousand times the proton mass, less than a millionth of a billionth of the Planck energy, we are very far from being able to search in the laboratory for any of these new particles predicted by string theory.
And in the Fifth Symphony, one of those in which he called for no vocal performers, he nevertheless managed to vary and expand the conventional suite by preceding the first allegro with a march, and separating and relieving the gargantuan scherzo and rondo with an adagietto for strings alone.
There was a small amount of sulphurous light from the street lights strung along the se afront path, and I saw Danny climbing the metal steps over the sea wall.
Beany crep out esy and hunted round til we found the string and we tide it agen as tite as we cood and then we crep back into the porch and peeked through the window.
In the alameda a few small tin foldingtables had been set out and young girls were stringing paper ribbon overhead.
Water dripped from the trees in the alameda and the crepe hung in soggy strings.
Pausing to tune the harp, he snapped the string and, after a tense, whispered exchange with Alec, rose and bowed to the mayor.
Stepping away as far as he could, Alec pulled the harp string from his tunic and waved it like a pass.
But it was Alec, another arrow ready on the string, who stepped from tyim Flewelling the trees.
He handed Alec the silver ring, and strung the seal around his own neck on a bit of string.
Boca experience, and many restaurants in town offered alfresco seating beneath palm trees whose trunks and fronds were studded with strings of tiny white lights.
They were roped together with a string, they had mimic alpenstocks and ice-axes, and were climbing a meek and lowly manure-pile with a most blood-curdling amount of care and caution.
The article practically accused the Grand Dame Alpha of violating clan trust to pull strings for her granddaughter.