| String |
n. |
In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire. |
| String |
n. |
In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc. |
| String |
n. |
The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; called also string line. |
| String |
n. |
Act of stringing for break. |
| String |
n. |
A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story. |
| String |
v. t. |
To hoax; josh; jolly. |
| String |
v. i. |
To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| String |
n. |
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. |
| String |
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. |
| String |
n. |
The line or cord of a bow. |
| String |
n. |
A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root. |
| String |
n. |
A nerve or tendon of an animal body. |
| String |
n. |
An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. |
| String |
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. |
| String |
n. |
A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. |
| String |
n. |
Same as Stringcourse. |
| String |
n. |
The points made in a game. |
| String |
v. t. |
To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin. |
| String |
v. t. |
To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it. |
| String |
v. t. |
To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads. |
| String |
v. t. |
To make tense; to strengthen. |
| String |
v. t. |
To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9. |
| Stringboard |
n. |
Same as Stringpiece. |
| Stringcourse |
n. |
A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work. |
| Stringed |
|
of String |
| Stringed |
a. |
Having strings; as, a stringed instrument. |
| Stringed |
a. |
Produced by strings. |
| Stringency |
n. |
The quality or state of being stringent. |
| Stringendo |
a. |
Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax. |
| Stringent |
a. |
Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules. |
| Stringer |
n. |
One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. |
| Stringer |
n. |
A libertine; a wencher. |
| Stringer |
n. |
A longitudinal sleeper. |
| Stringer |
n. |
A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams. |
| Stringer |
n. |
A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like. |
| Stringhalt |
n. |
An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock. |
| Stringiness |
n. |
Quality of being stringy. |
| Stringing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of String |
| Stringless |
a. |
Having no strings. |
| Stringpiece |
n. |
A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.: |
| Stringpiece |
n. |
One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs. |
| Stringy |
a. |
Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root. |
| Stringy |
a. |
Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely. |