string

string is a 6-letter English word with 34 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 34 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. The line or cord of a bow.
6. noun. A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
7. noun. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
8. noun. An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
9. noun. 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. noun. A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
11. noun. Same as Stringcourse.
12. noun. The points made in a game.
13. transitive verb. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
14. transitive verb. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
15. transitive verb. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
16. transitive verb. To make tense; to strengthen.
17. transitive verb. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
18. noun. stringed instruments that are played with a bow

    "the strings played superlatively well"

19. noun. a necklace made by a stringing objects together

    "a string of beads"

    "a strand of pearls"

    Synonyms: chain, strand

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

    "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag"

    Synonyms: drawstring

21. noun. a lightweight cord

    Synonyms: twine

22. noun. a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
23. noun. a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
24. noun. a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
25. 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"

    "train of mourners"

    Synonyms: train

26. noun. (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
27. noun. a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
28. verb. add as if on a string

    "string these ideas together"

    "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"

29. verb. provide with strings

    "string my guitar"

30. verb. thread on or as if on a string

    "string pearls on a string"

    "the child drew glass beads on a string"

    Synonyms: draw, thread

31. verb. remove the stringy parts of

    "string beans"

32. verb. string together; tie or fasten with a string

    "string the package"

33. verb. stretch out or arrange like a string
34. verb. move or come along

Synonyms

chain, strand, drawstring, twine, train, draw, thread

Common word forms

stre, strings, stringed, stringer, stringful, stringing, stringless

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