String
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
(2): ( v. t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
(3): ( v. t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
(4): ( v. t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
(5): ( v. t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
(6): ( v. t.) To hoax; josh; jolly.
(7): ( n.) Same as Stringcourse.
(8): ( 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.
(9): ( n.) In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
(10): ( n.) In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
(11): ( n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
(12): ( 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.
(13): ( n.) The line or cord of a bow.
(14): ( n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
(15): ( 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.
(16): ( v. i.) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
(17): ( n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
(18): ( n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
(19): ( 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.
(20): ( n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(21): ( 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.
(22): ( n.) Act of stringing for break.
(23): ( n.) The points made in a game.
(24): ( n.) A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
King James Dictionary [2]
String n. G., L., drawing, stretching.
1. A small rope, line or cord, or a slender strip of lether or other like substance, used for fastening or tying things. 2. A ribin.
Round Ormonds knee thou tyst the mystic string.
3. A thread on which any thing is filed and hence, a line of things as a string of shells or beads. 4. The chord of a musical instrument, as of a harpsichord, harp or violin as an instrument of ten strings. 5. A fiber, as of a plant.
Duck weed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
6. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
The string of his tongue was loosed. Mark 7 .
This is not a technical word.
7. The line or cord of a bow.
He twangs the quivring string.
8. A series of things connected or following in succession any concatenation of things as a string of arguments a string of propositions. 9. In ship-building, the highest range of planks in a ships ceiling, or that between the gunwale and the upper edge of the upper deck ports. 10. The tough substance that unites the two parts of the pericarp of leguminous plants as the strings of beans.
To have two strings to the bow, to have two expedients for executing a project or gaining a purpose to have a double advantage, or to have two views. In the latter sense, unusual.
STRING, pret. and pp. strung.
1. To furnish with strings.
Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet?
2. To put in tune a stringed instrument.
For here the muse so oft her harp has strung--
3. To file to put on a line as, to string beads or pearls. 4. To make tense to strengthen.
Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.
5. To deprive of strings as, to string beans.
