string

Sense 1 noun

a lightweight cord

Sense 2 verb

thread on or as if on a string

string pearls on a string

Sense 3 noun

stringed instruments that are played with a bow

the strings played superlatively well

Sense 4 verb

add as if on a string

string these ideas together

Sense 5 noun

a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed

Sense 6 verb

move or come along

Sense 7 noun

a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding

a string of islands

Sense 8 verb

stretch out or arrange like a string

Sense 9 noun

a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)

Sense 10 verb

string together; tie or fasten with a string

string the package

Sense 11 noun

a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening

he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag

Sense 12 verb

remove the stringy parts of

string beans

Sense 13 noun

a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)

Sense 14 verb

provide with strings

string my guitar

Sense 15 noun

(cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop

Sense 16 noun

a collection of objects threaded on a single strand

Sense 17 noun

a necklace made by a stringing objects together

a string of beads