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English to English noun
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a lightweight cord |  | source: wordnet30
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stringed instruments that are played with a bow | | Example: the strings played superlatively well
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a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed | | source: wordnet30
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a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding | | Example: a string of islands
train of mourners
a train of thought
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a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases) | | source: wordnet30
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a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | | Example: he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag
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a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod) | | source: wordnet30
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(cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop | | source: wordnet30
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a collection of objects threaded on a single strand | | source: wordnet30
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a necklace made by a stringing objects together | | Example: a string of beads
a strand of pearls
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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. | | source: webster1913
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In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire. | | source: webster1913 verb
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thread on or as if on a string | | Example: string pearls on a string
the child drew glass beads on a string
thread dried cranberries
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| 14 |
add as if on a string | | Example: string these ideas together
string up these songs and you'll have a musical
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move or come along | | source: wordnet30
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stretch out or arrange like a string | | source: wordnet30
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string together; tie or fasten with a string | | Example: string the package
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| 18 |
remove the stringy parts of | | Example: string beans
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provide with strings | | Example: string my guitar
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To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin. | | source: webster1913
| 21 |
To hoax; josh; jolly. | | source: webster1913
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To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. | | source: webster1913
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