string
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Is string a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of string?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable, uncountable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.Examples: "Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string."Synonyms: cord, rope, line, thread, twinecountableuncountable
2. (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.Examples: "a violinstring"; "a bowstring"countableuncountable
3. (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.countableuncountable
4. (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.Examples: "The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive"countable
5. (countable) A series of items or events.Examples: "In 1933, disgusted and discouraged after a string of commercial failures, Clara quit the film business forever. She was twenty-six."; "a string of successes"Synonyms: sequence, seriescountable
6. (countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.countable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To put (items) on a string.Examples: "You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace."Synonyms: threadtransitive
2. (transitive) To put strings on (something).Examples: "It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly."Synonyms: lacetransitive
3. (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.intransitive
4. (intransitive, billiards) To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.intransitive
5. (birdwatching) To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.Examples: "To be honest, you'd be better off trying to string a Skylark as a Richard's Pipit rather than as a Pectoral Sandpiper."; "For instance he might see a White-eared Honeyeater, a not uncommon bird in the heathy areas at Bunyip, but in his excitement to call it, something in his brain scrambled and came out as: `White-cheeked Honeyeater!' White-cheeked Honeyeater is an absolute stonking crippler in Victoria, but Stu was not actually trying to string a rarity, he'd just got such a flood of new information swirling around his brain that sometimes it got jumbled up."
Definition source: Wiktionary