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String beans

String \String\ (str[i^]ng), n. [OE. string, streng, AS. streng; akin to D. streng, G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. str["a]ng, Dan. str[ae]ng; probably from the adj., E. strong (see Strong); or perhaps originally meaning, twisted, and akin to E. strangle.]

  1. 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.
    --Shak.

    Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.
    --Prior.

  2. 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 string of islands.''
    --Gibbon.

  3. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
    --Milton.

  4. 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. ``An instrument of ten strings.''
    --Ps. xxx. iii. 2.

    Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of lute, or viol still.
    --Milton.

  5. The line or cord of a bow.
    --Ps. xi. 2.

    He twangs the grieving string.
    --Pope.

  6. A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.

    Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
    --Bacon.

  7. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

    The string of his tongue was loosed.
    --Mark vii. 35.

  8. (Shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

  9. (Bot.) 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.

  10. (Mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
    --Ure.

  11. (Arch.) Same as Stringcourse.

  12. (Billiards) The points made in a game.

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

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

  13. (Billiards & Pool)

    1. 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.

    2. Act of stringing for break.

  14. A hoax; a trumped-up or ``fake'' story. [Slang]

  15. a sequence of similar objects or events sufficiently close in time or space to be perceived as a group; a string of accidents; a string of restaurants on a highway.

  16. (Physics) A one-dimensional string-like mathematical object used as a means of representing the properties of fundamental particles in string theory, one theory of particle physics; such hypothetical objects are one-dimensional and very small (10^ -33 cm) but exist in more than four spatial dimensions, and have various modes of vibration. Considering particles as strings avoids some of the problems of treating particles as points, and allows a unified treatment of gravity along with the other three forces (electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force) in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics. See also string theory. String band (Mus.), a band of musicians using only, or chiefly, stringed instruments. String beans.

    1. A dish prepared from the unripe pods of several kinds of beans; -- so called because the strings are stripped off.

    2. Any kind of beans in which the pods are used for cooking before the seeds are ripe; usually, the low bush bean.

      To have two strings to one's bow, to have a means or expedient in reserve in case the one employed fails.

Wiktionary
string beans

n. (string bean English)

Wikipedia
String Beans (film)

String Beans is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and written by Julien Josephson. The film stars Charles Ray, Jane Novak, J. P. Lockney, Donald MacDonald, Al W. Filson, and Otto Hoffman. The film was released on December 29, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.

Usage examples of "string beans".

Thus, from the first night, Nyuk Tsin stumbled upon the system she was to follow for many years: taro for the Hawaiians, Chinese cabbage and peas for the Orientals, lima beans, string beans and Irish potatoes for the haoles.

So they did, and he was right about hot tamales tasting far more interesting than string beans.

And in the winter you know what we pay for canned peaches and canned string beans.

Instead she started loading three plates with leftovers - cold fried chicken, beans, potato salad, string beans, and slices cut from a loaf of fresh bread.

Morales put up some string beans in jars, and the jars blew up, and she fed the beans to the chickens, and those chickens all died, every one.

Then I put a pile of the string beans on each side, and I'd pick out a bean, one in each hand, and bring it towards me with enough speed that it would slice, and the pieces would slide into the bowl that was in my lap.

Theo put two eggs in one of his new pots, and cut up some string beans in another.

How many times, thought Quoyle, had his father leaned on his hoe and gazed down the rows of string beans, saying “.

So he allowed that roast beef with mashed potatoes and string beans sounded fine, if they'd leave out the string beans and serve him some of the tamales mentioned on the blackboard instead.

On regular fare, such as greens, pork chops, string beans, cornbread and so on, I'm a fairly good cook, and I enjoy the preparation of my own meals.

I thought we'd end up with fins and beaks and traded to a bunjo man for string beans or something.

Two older women were in the sunlight by the portico, shelling string beans and wristwrenchers.

They started at the sight of the procession coming up the drive, and Ama Clutch leaned forward, the string beans spilling out of her lap.