string

Definitions

• (countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
• (uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
• (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
• 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.
• (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
• (countable) A series of items or events.
• (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) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
• A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
• (countable) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
• (music) A stringed instrument.
• (music) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
• (in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
• (countable) The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
• (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
• (billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
• (historical) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
• (billiards) The points made in a game of billiards.
• (billiards) 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; also called the string line.
• A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
• (archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
• (archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
• (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
• (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
• (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
• (architecture) A stringcourse.
• (dated) A hoax; a fake story.