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string

//ˈstɹɪŋ//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for string

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
strings

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
string
past (v2)
strung
past participle (v3)
strung
present participle
stringing
3rd person singular
strings

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

  2. 2.Any similar long, thin and flexible object.

  3. 3.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.

  4. 4.A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.

  2. 2.To put (items) on a string.

    • You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
  3. 3.To put strings on (something).

    • It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.
  4. 4.To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #2757

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”).

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