string

string is a Noun

Definition:

[1] 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. Shak. Round Ormond`s knee thou tiest the mystic string. Prior.

[2] 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. "A string of islands." Gibbon.

[3] A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. Milton.

[4] 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. "An instrument of ten strings." Ps. xxx. iii. 2. Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of lute, or viol still. Milton.

[5] The line or cord of a bow. Ps. xi. 2. He twangs the grieving string. Pope.

[6] A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root. Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom. Bacon.

[7] A nerve or tendon of an animal body. The string of his tongue was loosed. Mark vii. 35.

[8] An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

[9] 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.

[10] A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. Ure.

[11] Same as Stringcourse.

[12] The points made in a game. String band (Mus.), a band of musicians using only, or chiefly, stringed instruments. -- String beans. (a) A dish prepared from the unripe pods of several kinds of beans; -- so called because the strings are stripped off.

[13] Any kind of beans in which the pods are used for cooking before the seeds are ripe; usually, the low bush bean. -- To have two strings to one`s bow, to have a means or expedient in reserve in case the one employed fails.