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Definition of string

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String (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..

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Heartstring :: Heartstring (n.) A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart..

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads..

Bowstring :: Bowstring (n.) The string of a bow.

Necklace :: Necklace (n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament..

Lifestring :: Lifestring (n.) A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life..

Point :: Point (n.) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress.

Astringent :: Astringent (n.) A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc..

Hockle :: Hockle (v. t.) To hamstring; to hock; to hough.

Torulaform :: Torulaform (a.) Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci..

Bowstringed :: Bowstringed (p.a.) Furnished with bowstring.

Stringhalt :: Stringer (n.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like..

String :: String (n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root..

Astringency :: Astringency (n.) The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin..

String :: String (v. t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it..

Kite :: Kite (n.) A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string..

Collared :: Collared (a.) Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t..

Involute :: Involute (n.) A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute..

Loop :: Loop (n.) The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment..

String :: Stringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strin.

Twang :: Twang (v. i.) To sound with a quick, harsh noise; to make the sound of a tense string pulled and suddenly let go; as, the bowstring twanged..