Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Music Having strings. Often used in combination: a six-stringed lute.
- adj. Music Produced by stringed instruments: stringed chamber music.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having strings; furnished with strings: as, a stringed instrument.
- Produced by strings or stringed instruments.
- Fastened with a string or strings; tied.
- In heraldry, furnished with a string of any sort, as a cord or ribbon.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having strings.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having strings.
- adj. Produced by strings.
Examples
“Part of this business will involve implanting RFID tags in stringed instruments — from violins to cellos and from cheap student instruments to million-dollar antiques that are still being played.”
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“Negrito's own brain, but they have probably borrowed the idea of stringed violins and guitars from the Christianized natives.”
“There are exceptions to this, of course among them several "stringed" sculptures, which are exercises in material and formal tension achieved by tautly stringing cords across the forms.”
“Then the line of people began thinning, and there were gaps, and a young Chinese came through carrying some kind of stringed instrument made of bamboo, then a lost-looking woman with tired eyes and too much lipstick, and no one to meet her, and then a short man in an overcoat and dark glasses.”
“Every kind of stringed instrument there is plays in your hands, Thea," he whispered, pressing them to his face.”
“From one of the balconies near at hand, though unseen, a gong, a pipe, and some kind of stringed instrument wailed and thundered in unison.”
“One of them performed on a kind of stringed instrument, made out of the stem of a cabbage-palm, and about two feet, or two feet and a half, in length.”
“One of them stood near, playing upon a kind of stringed instrument, made out of the stem of a cabbage-palm, and about two feet, or two feet and a half, in length.”
“June 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Criticizing the 'stringed' US assistance to Pakistan, former Pakistan Information minister, Sherry Rehman, has said that the assistance being offered to Islamabad by Washington was a major factor which comprises the strategic goals of both the countries.”
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List of Heraldry Terms
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