Crossword clues for strung
strung
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strung \Strung\, imp. & p. p. of String.
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.]
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To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street?
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To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung.
--Addison. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
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To make tense; to strengthen.
Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.
--Dryden. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung him along all day until he realized we were kidding.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past tense and past participle of string (v.). From 1680s as an adjective; in reference to nerves, feelings, etc., from 1840. Strung out is from 1902 as "spread out in a line;" slang meaning "addicted" is recorded from 1959.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: string)
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 ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding; "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought" [syn: train]
a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening; "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag" [syn: drawstring, drawing string]
a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"; [syn: chain, strand]
[also: strung]
v. thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries" [syn: thread, draw]
add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical" [syn: string up]
move or come along [syn: string along]
stretch out or arrange like a string
string together; tie or fasten with a string; "string the package"
remove the stringy parts of; "string beans"
provide with strings; "string my guitar" [ant: unstring]
[also: strung]
adj. that is on a string; "keys strung on a red cord"
See string
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "strung".
There were the freeways and autostradas and autobahns, strung in an all-enclosing net across the faces of the continents.
Strung precariously over the third and steepest waterfall along the entire Bindadnay, this bridge also served as the official boundary marker between Benji territory and the Unghatti forest.
He was so tightly strung, Brat thought, that if you plucked him with a finger he would twang.
Farther up, his muscles were tightly strung, and she sank her teeth gently into his biceps, her fingers brushing the soft hair beneath his arm.
Then Buri struck, falling on them from the east, smashing into their strung out line like an avalanche of iron.
The troops were strung out along almost a full kilometer route, each maniple isolated from the others in the dripping-white blanket that lay across the valley.
Their genetic code had been based on triplet base sequences strung on a DNA double helix, reinforcing the modified HoyleWickramasinghe panspermia hypothesis that all life in the Solar System, including the long-extinct Martian microflora, had a common ancestor.
They spoke, too, of the Multifold, but that equally tenuous entity was said to be strung like a veil among the crush of stars and radiant clouds.
I told her how the fear of her danger palsied my exertions, how the knowledge of her safety strung my nerves to endurance.
Her nerves already strung taut from the incident with Parcher, and her composure nearly shattered by her discovery of Lucas and Cora Lee together in the darkness, Tucker now experienced an inner explosion that left her helpless and numb in the face of this final assault on her emotions.
Rue saw that the radian draws had been reconfigured, strung away from two of the six parse tubes to feed power to the remaining four.
Her bare feet were embraced in cool grass strung silver with dew, the flesh gone pearlescent and strange.
The wagons were lightened, the food, the tents, the supplies drawn across on strung ropes, then the carts laboriously lashed together and planked over as makeshift bridges.
She put aside her cloak to give freedom to her arms, strung her bow, and held her head high as might a pronghorn buck on herd sentry, listening.
But overhead, a thousand thousand stars glittered like tiny jewels strung on garlands in the heavens-a spectacular sight, as Quarle had promised.