noun the line or cord of a bow.
2. string ·noun the points made in a game.
3. string ·noun a nerve or tendon of an animal body.
4. string ·add. ·noun act of stringing for break.
5. string ·noun a fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
6. string ·noun ·same·as stringcourse.
7. string ·vt to furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
8. string ·add. ·noun a hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
9. string ·vt to make tense; to strengthen.
10. string ·noun a small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
11. string ·add. ·vt to hoax; josh; jolly.
12. string ·noun a strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
13. string ·vt to put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
14. string ·vt to put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
15. string ·vt to deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. ·see string, ·noun, 9.
xvi. string ·noun an inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
xvii. string ·add. ·noun in various games, competitions, ·etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, ·etc.
xviii. string ·add. ·vi to form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, ·etc.
xix. string ·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.
xx. string ·add. ·noun in various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in american billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
xxi. string ·add. ·noun 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;
called also string line.
xxii. string ·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.
xxiii. string ·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.
xxiv. string ·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.