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How do you spell String

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1)  n. - 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.
2)  n. - 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.
3)  n. - A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
4)  n. - 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.
5)  n. - The line or cord of a bow.
6)  n. - A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
7)  n. - A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
8)  n. - An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
9)  n. - 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)  n. - A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
11)  n. - Same as Stringcourse.
12)  n. - The points made in a game.
13)  v. t. - To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
14)  v. t. - To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
15)  v. t. - To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
16)  v. t. - To make tense; to strengthen.
17)  v. t. - To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String , n., 9.





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