string

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
2. Such a structure considered as a substance.
3. A thread.
4. Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
5. Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
6. 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.
7. A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
8. A series of items or events.
9. 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.
10. In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
11. A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
12. An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
13. A stringed instrument.
14. The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
15. The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
16. A tiny one-dimensional string-like entity, the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
17. (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
18. 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.
19. The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
20. The points made in a game of billiards.
21. 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.
22. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
23. A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
24. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
25. A board supporting steps
26. An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
27. The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
28. A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
29. A stringcourse.
30. (slang) A hoax; a fake story.
31. Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
32. A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.

Verb

1. To put (items) on a string.
2. To put strings on (something).
3. To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
4. To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
5. 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.

Sinònims

rope

🪢

cord

thread

🧵

twine

line

band

tie

series

chain

yarn

🧶

lace

row

strand

chord

wire

sequence

knot

🪢

ribbon

🎀

bunch

fibre

train

🚋

tape

succession

fiber

stripe

sinew

thin rope

file

cable

vine

strap

cluster

bind

draw

drawstring

drawing string

string along

filament

bowed stringed instrument

stringed instrument

string up

column

run

yoke

hawser

pack

stringer

braid

belt

queue

guitar string

character string

handle

join

rootlet

tissue

tie up

girdle

spade

bundle

flight

✈️

bandage

cosmic string

tether

spoon

🥄

tendon

relate

garland

rank

attach

fillet

fishing line

cordon

vein

set

nest

block

battery

🔋

batch

flush

gaggle

gather

gird

grist

gulp

harem

herd

hilum

hive

hook up

inning

interrelate

intrigue

jet

joint

kennel

kill

🔪🩸👤

kindle

lacing

lanyard

lash

lashing

league together

leash

liana

ligate

lingua

link

🔗

link up

march

march past

mesh

miter

mob

murder

mustering

necklace

nerve

nexus

oar

order

packthread

paddling

painter

🧑‍🎨

parade

parlance

parliament

pass through

piece

piggyback

plump

pod

pounce

pride

pull chain

rack

raffia

raft

range

rattan

rebate

reeve

regard

reticule

ring

💍

rookery

root

roughage

rout

rows

run through

school

🏫

shiver

shoal

shoelace

shrewdness

single file

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

slur

sounder

span

speech

splice

stake

staple

staple fibre

streak

stringed

strings

stud

subjoin

suffix

suit

suite

supplement

swarm

swathe

taenia

team

tessellate

thong

tiding

tieback

tie down

tittering

tongue

👅

touch on

tribe

trip

troop

true

truss

turn

unite

waiting line

web

webbing

wedge

whip

words

harras

clowder

hairband

staple fiber

glossa

tenia

language

lash together

murmuration

ring series

put a string in

chorda

drill set

pack-thread

measuring line

draw-through

fine cord

hirsel

cete

pool operations

hair belt

pulsus parvus

posture in walking

dilly bag

cord, string

string bikini

thread on a string

two-leaf tree bark

affiliate

annex

append

army

ascension

ascribe

associate

attach to

backup

bag

banding

band oneself

bank

🏦

barrel

barren

bead

beads

bear on

bear upon

bed

🛏️

bevy

bike

🚲

binding

bindle

blossom

🌼

boar

🐗

boom

💥

bowstring

brace

break

bridle

brood

bucket

🪣

building

bury

business

busyness

cane

caravan

cartload

cascade

catgut

chapter

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

clapper

🎬

clinch

cloud

☁️

clutter

coalition

collection

colligate

colony

come to

comfort

company

concatenation

connect

corps

covey

division

drawers

dress

👗

drift

drove

engraft

erst

exaltation

family

👪

fascia

fasten

fastener

festoon

field

filch

fishline

flock

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/stɹɪŋ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: string

Heretat de anglès antic: strenġ

Cognat amb escocès: string

Cognat amb neerlandès: streng

Cognat amb baix alemany: strenge

Cognat amb alemany: Strang

Cognat amb danès: streng

Cognat amb suec: sträng

Cognat amb islandès: strengur

Cognat amb letó: stringt

Cognat amb llatí: stringō

Cognat amb grec antic: στραγγαλόομαι

Cognat amb grec antic: στραγγός

Heretat de anglès mitjà: stryngen

In summary

From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”).
Cognate with Scots string (“string”), Dutch streng (“cord, strand”), Low German strenge (“strand, cord, rope”), German Strang (“strand, cord, rope”), Danish streng (“string”), Swedish sträng (“string, cord, wire”), Icelandic strengur (“string”), Latvian stringt (“to be tight, wither”), Latin stringō (“I tighten”), Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “halter”), Ancient Greek στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).

Frases

Following this string of changes , the Supremes had mixed success on the pop charts .

This movement shows the influence of Franz Schubert's String Quintet .