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Definition of string

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String (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..

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Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A longitudinal sleeper.

Austereness :: Austereness (n.) Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.

Latchet :: Latchet (n.) The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.

Stringboard :: String (v. t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9..

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..

Fiddlestring :: Fiddlestring (n.) One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.

Quill :: Quill (n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

String :: String (v. t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads..

Moniliform :: Moniliform (a.) Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna..

Action :: Action (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.

Mark :: Mark (n.) A number or other character used in registring; as, examination marks; a mark for tardiness..

Boza :: Boza (n.) An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water..

Wattle :: Wattle (n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark..

Open :: Open (a.) Produced by an open string; as, an open tone..

Bandore :: Bandore (n.) A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore..

Stringent :: Stringendo (a.) Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax..

Ligature :: Ligature (n.) A thread or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage..

Corbel-table :: Corbel-table (n.) A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them..

Roughstrings :: Roughstrings (n. pl.) Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.

Sagitta :: Sagitta (n.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string..