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  1. noun A cord usually made of fiber, used for fastening, tying, or lacing.
  2. noun Something configured as a long, thin line: limp strings of hair.
  3. noun A plant fiber.
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  • This string is a bag, in which the eggs lie inclosed at different distances, though they seem in the empty space to be fallen, thread-like, together. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • But taken together the string was a kind of underground jargon. —  Persuader by Lee Child
  • If I put a C string on, the middle of the string will be at the 12th fret, and that'll be a C, an octave higher. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • If the string is always null-terminated (as with all AutoHotkey strings), the easiest way is: sTest: = "This is a test sentence." —  AutoHotkey Community
  • Also, breaking a string is a good indicator it's time to change strings. —  Mandolin Cafe News
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

chain ·  cord ·  thread ·  wire ·  pair ·  piece ·  ring ·  number ·  box ·  series ·  sound ·  sheet

Used in the same contextWord Family

string:   strings ·  stringing ·  strung
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  1. Middle English, from Old English streng.

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  1. from Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Anglo-Saxon strenge = Middle Dutch strenghe, stringhe, Dutch streng, strenge, strenk (streng-), strank (strong-) = Low German strenge = Old High German strang, Middle High German stranc, strange, German strang = Icelandic strengr = Danish streng = Swedish sträng, a string, line, cord; perhaps from Anglo-Saxon strang, etc., strong (see strong); otherwise akin to L. stringere, draw tight, Greek στργγάλη, a halter, στραγγός, hard-twisted: see strain, stringent, strangle.
  2. from string, n. As with ring, the strong form's of the principal parts conform to the supposed analogy of sing, sang, sung, etc.
 

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