String

Definition: String

String

Noun

1. A lightweight cord.

2. Stringed instruments that are played with a bow; "the strings played superlatively well".

3. A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed.

4. 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"; "a train of thought".

5. A linear sequence of words as spoken or written.

6. A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening; "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag".

7. A collection of objects threaded on a single strand.

8. A necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads" or "a strand of pearls".

Verb

1. Thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string".

2. Add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical".

3. Move or come along.

4. Stretch out or arrange like a string.

5. String together; tie or fasten with a string; "string the package".

6. Remove the stringy parts of; "string beans".

7. Provide with strings; "string my guitar".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "string" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: String \String\ (str[i^]ng), noun. [Old English string, streng, Anglo-Saxon streng; akin to Dutch streng, German strang, Icelandic strengr, Swedish str["a]ng, Danish str[ae]ng; probably from the adj., English strong (see Strong); or perhaps originally meaning, twisted, and akin to English strangle.]. (references)

Computing

Building & Civil Engineering

Electrical Engineering

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Geography

Industry

Literature

Math

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: String

Arrangement

Class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register; (record); catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade.

Conditions

Adverb: conditionally; (with qualification); provisionally, pro re nata; on condition; with a string to it.

Connection

Bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string; (filament).

Continuity

Rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit; colonnade.

Arrange in a series, collate; Noun: string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.

Excitation

Stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings; touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul.

Filament

Wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Prison

Yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord; (fastening); cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons.

Qualification

Condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non; catch, string, strings attached; exemption; exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause; discount; restriction; fine print.

Repetition

Rehearse; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp on the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.

Weariness

Harp on the same string; drag its slow length along, drag its weary length along.

Crosswords: String

Dutch (string), Frisian (severe, strict).

I wish I were a woman of 36, dressed in black satin with a string of pearls (Rebecca; writing credit: Daphne Du Maurier; Philip MacDonald)

Now, now. If there's a problem I simply pull on this string (Stuart Little 2; writing credit: E.B. White; Douglas Wick)

You're like one of those Chatty Cathy dolls except I'm not pulling the string, you are. Blah (Planes, Trains & Automobiles; writing credit: John Hughes.)

Pull the string! Pull the string (Ed Wood; writing credit: Scott Alexander)

Maybe I should tie a string around my finger to remind myself to write a little note, to remind myself to write a little note, to remind myself to write a little note (Cartoon Planet; writing credit: Andy Merrill; Pete Smith)

I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back (Wanted Dead or Alive; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

I got my first real six string (Summer Of '69; performing artist: Bryan Adams)

You string along (Karma Chameleon; performing artist: Culture Club)

If you a monkey on a string (What Would You Say; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

Rabbit's foot on a string (Good Luck Charm; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

You are an engineer if, at Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string. (references; author: unknown)

Man on a String (1972)

A String of Beads (1961)

Man on a String (1959)

Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)

String Bean Jack (1938)

String (performing artist: Monty Python)

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References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Pianos and Other String Musical Instuments in Asia (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Pianos and Other String Musical Instruments Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Pianos and Other String Musical Instruments (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for String Pants (reference)

• The World Market for Pianos and Other String Musical Instruments: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• 21st Century String Quartets (Strings Backstage) (reference)

• A Mechanical String Model of Adiabatic Chemical Reactions (Lecture Notes in Chemistry, 69) (reference)

• Androgynous Objects: String Bags and Gender in Central New Guinea (Studies in Anthropology and History) (reference)

• Dangling on a String (reference)

• A String and a Prayer: How to Make and Use Prayer Beads (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bulletin Of The International String Figure Association (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Lord of the G-Strings: The Femaleship of the String (reference)

• String Cheese Incident - Evolution (reference)

• The Incredible String Band: Be Glad For the Song Has No Ending (reference)

• Simplicity: String Quartet (reference)

• High Fidelity: Guarneri String Quartet (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• String Quartet 2 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Black & Decker AF-100 String Trimmer Auto Feed System (AFS) Replacement Spool (reference)

• Black & Decker ST4000 12" Bump Feed String Trimmer/Edger (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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(2) color slides of a snow pea. (1) group of four snow peas, (1) single snow pea string. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

(1) color slide shows a group of four or five raw string beans. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

"2D Cross Section of a 5-Brane" (movie) by Bob Rutkiewicz. From Physics String Theory/M-Theory, a 5-brane equation that has the same number of holes as the full 10-brane. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A or B.

Diver with nice string of fish. Credit: Fisheries.

Retrieving a gillnet from the water, the mesh is 1&1/2". The catch is primarily white perch. The gillnets are experimental multi-mesh gillnets. All nets are connected to a string of nets containing different size mesh between 1&1/2", 2&1/2", and 3&1/2" mesh. Gillnets are made with a lead line that sinks to the bottom and a float line that keeps the net just below the surface of the water. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Rawinsonde weather balloon just after launch. Notice a parachute in the center of the string and a small instrument box at the end. After release it measures many parameters. These include temperature, relative humidity, pressure, and wind speed. This information is transmitted back to surface observers. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Attaching 1/4 square meter grid to pipes by rope. The method did not work and eventually a hole was drilled in the four corners of the grid area, a stainless steel screw was attached, and nylon string was strung between the four corners. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Operating Boutan's third apparatus from a boat by means of a string. In: Reighar d, Jacob, 1907, "The Photography of Aquatic Animals in Their Natural Environment . " Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVII, 1907, pp. 41-68. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Araby deftly dropped a string of pearls into the mouth of the fresh-caught fish. Credit: Library of Congress.

I wonder if there's a string to that, too?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He said a whole string of blurred sounds that were not words, and his face was red under the spiky white whiskers

She often took me out of my box at my own desire, to give me air and show me the country, but always held me fast by a leading string.

The Indians had advanced so far as to regulate the effect of the wind by a mat suspended over the hole in the roof and moved by a string.

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Health

In the meantime, biochemical studies have come up with a string of related findings. (references)

Every human cell has from 50,000 to 100,000 genes arranged like beads on a string (chromosome). (references)

The duodenal fluid can be examined using techniques such as the Enterotest string or duodenal aspiration. (references)

Economic History

Chile

Southern Chile is rich in forests and grazing lands and features a string of volcanoes and lakes. (references)

Nicaragua

The country also has been grappling with a string of bank failures that began in August 2000. Moreover, Nicaragua continues to lose international reserves due to its growing fiscal deficits. (references)

Political Economy

Bolivia

Once known for political instability and a dizzying string of military coups, Bolivia is now among South America's leaders in building democratic political institutions and a sustained system of market-oriented economic policies. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "string": Apron string ♦ bass string ♦ bit string ♦ draw string ♦ drawing string ♦ drilling string ♦ e string ♦ emitting string ♦ fiddle string ♦ gut string ♦ harp on one string ♦ harp on the same string ♦ have more than one string to one's bow ♦ HEXA string ♦ hexadecimal string ♦ linguistic string ♦ lowest note string ♦ null character string ♦ null string ♦ original string ♦ procrustean string ♦ purse string ♦ replace string ♦ shoe string ♦ source string ♦ start string ♦ string along ♦ string along with ♦ string along with smb. ♦ string bag ♦ string band ♦ string bass ♦ string bean ♦ string beans ♦ string bikini ♦ string bog ♦ string cheese ♦ string correspondent ♦ string drive ♦ string drive for involute motion ♦ string EXpression Interpreter ♦ string halt ♦ string instrument ♦ string instruments ♦ string line ♦ string of beads ♦ string of cars ♦ string of pearls ♦ string of words ♦ string orchestra ♦ string Oriented Interactive Compiler ♦ string Oriented Symbolic Language ♦ string out ♦ string PRocessING language ♦ string pulling ♦ string quartet ♦ string quartette ♦ string reduction ♦ string rods ♦ string section ♦ string sign ♦ string theory ♦ string tie ♦ string together ♦ string up ♦ string vest ♦ Swiss String Numeric Healing System ♦ To harp on one string ♦ violin string ♦ with a string to it ♦ word string. Additional references.

Beginning with "string": string-and-patch, string-backed, string-balance, string-based, string-beans, string-beds, string-belted, string-bender, string-bending, string-board, string-changing, string-course, string-cum-keyboard, string-dominated, string-infected, string-like, string-making, StriNg-Oriented, string-piece, string-playing, string-puller, string-pulling, string-sets, string-soaked, string-spacing, string-style, string-technique, string-twister, string-vests, string-would.

Ending with "string": shoe-string, six-string, word-string.

Containing "string": purse-string operation, shoe-string majority.

Albanian

spango (cord, packthread, twine), shkoj në varg, varg (cavalcade, chain, column, concatenation, course, file, in file, line, network, nexus, number, range, rank, ridge, row, series, succession, train, variety, verse), vë tela, tel (chord, clothes line, line, staple, swig, wire), lidhëse (lace, lacing, tab, tie), lidh (articulate, associate, bend, bind, buckle, bundle, colligate, concatenate, connect, couple, do up, dress, enfetter, fasten, glue, hitch, hook up, interconnect, join, joint, lace, ligate, link, moor, regard, relate, respect, solder, splice, switch on, tie, tie down, truss, unite), gjerdan (bandoleer, bandolier, circlet, necklace, necklet), gjalmë (cord, cordon, lace, shoelace, strong-thread, twine), fill (alone, at once, immediately, just, original, promptly, right, right away, right now, start, thread, wire, yarn), fije (cord, fiber, fibre, glimmering, leaf, none, sheet of paper, thread, wire, wisp, yarn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زخرف (adorn, bedeck, deck, decorate, do, embellish, embellishment, emboss, embroider, enrich, flourish, garnish, grace, illuminate, illustrate, lard, ornament, ornamentation, trace, trick, trick out, trick up, trim), ‏شريحة (fillet, schnitzel, section, slab, slat, slice, sliver), ‏رافق (accompany, bring, bully, carry, chaperon, companion, company, escort, follow, join, pursue, see, see off, string along with, take, take along, take out), ‏رتل (be regular, chant, column, cue, intone, queue, run), ‏ركيزة (crutch, mounting, outrigger, pier, pillar, prop, stanchion, stilt, strut), ‏أسطبل, ‏إصطف (align, echelon, rank, row, stand, toe the line), ‏خيط (cord, fiber, fibre, filament, line, thread, twist, yarn), ‏خيط رفيع, ‏صحب, ‏شرط (condition, provision, scarification, score, slash, slit, stipulation, term), ‏عصبة (band, bevy, cabal, clique, crew, faction, league, nervousness, platoon, ring), خيط (thread), ‏سلسلة (catena, chain, concatenation, fall, leash, round, series, spectrum, stay, train), ‏ترادف (sequence), ‏حبل المشنقة (halter, rope), ‏حبل مرسى, ‏غزل (flirtation, gallant, spin, spinning, throw, yarn), ‏وسيلة (appliance, connection, connexion, contrivance, device, engine, expedience, expediency, expedient, facility, in a way, instrument, instrumentation, intermediary, makeshift, mean, measure, modality, resource, tactic, twist), ‏وتر (bow, catgut, chord, cord, gut, nerve, sinew, snare, strain, tauten, tendon, tense, tension), ‏وتر الآلات, ‏نظم في سلسلة, ‏فريق موقت, ‏ضلع مساعد. (various references)

Basque

katea. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кордаж, баламосвам (bamboozle, bull, humbug, kid), лента (band, bar, decoration, riband, ribbon, strap, strip, tape), жила (gristle, lead, streak, vein), завързвам с връв, нижа (thread), низ (series, strand, tissue), наниз (beads, concatenation, rope, strand), връзка (alliance, association, bond, bunch, cement, channel, communication, concatenation, connection, connexion, contact, copula, cord, coupler, intercommunication, lace, leverage, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, noose, overlay, point, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, tie, touch), връв (cord, lacing, packthread, twine), върволица (procession, train), поредица (consecution, procession, range, row, run, sequence, series, set, streak, succession), конец (thread), сухожилие (leader, ligament, nerve, sinew, tendon), ширит (edging, galloon, gimp, lace, piping, tape), тетива, чистя от конците, сплит (plexus), спортна категория, снабдявам с връв, снабдявам с канап, снабдявам с тетива, условие (circumstance, condition, if, proviso, requirement, salvo, stipulation), струна (catgut, chord, cord, wire), стягам се (brace up, lace, pull together, sit up), канап (cord, packthread, twine). (various references)

Catalan

corda (cord, rope). (various references)

Chinese 

串 (to connect, to conspire, to mix up, to string together). (various references)

Czech

provázek (cord, twine, twist, whipcord, whip-cord). (various references)

Danish

snor (cord, rope), reb (cord, rope). (various references)

Dutch

string (sequence), stemband (cord), snaar (cord), koorde (cord, rope). (various references)

Esperanto

signovico, senfadenigi, tendeno (sinew, tendon), ligaĵo (braid, fillet, tie), kordo (cord), ŝnuro (cord, rope). (various references)

Faeroese

strongur (cord, sinew, tendon), spong (sinew, tendon), sin (sinew, tendon), band (binding, bond, cord, ribbon, rope, strip, tape, tie). (various references)

Farsi 

زه(.vi&.vt.n), بصف کردن (Align), دراز (Lengthy, Linear, Longish, Oblong, Prolix, Toom, Verbose), ردیف (Cue, Rank, Row, Run, Tier), رشته (Branch, Catena, Filament, Ligature, Rank, Reeve, Sequence, Strand, Suite, System, Thread, Tissue, Tract, Train), ریسمان (Chord, Cord, Line, Rope, Thread, Warp), باسوزن وغیره , زه انداختن به , چسبناک (Cohesive, Goo, Gooey, Slab, Stick, Sticky, Tacky), زهی , سلسله (Catena, Chain, Dynasty, Flight, Genealogy, Gradation, Phylum, Rank, Run, System, Train), سیم (Cord, Line, Silver, Wire), قطار (Rank, Row, Tandem, Train), کشیدن (Chart, Drag, Draw, Drawl, Entrain, Experience, Figure, Hale, Haul, Heave, Lave, Lengthen, Peg, Pluck, Pull, Strain, Strap, Suffer, Trace, Trawl, Weigh), نخ (Cotton, Fiber-Fibre), نخ کردن ریشه ای , نخ مانند, زه دارکردن . (various references)

Finnish

jänne (chord, cord, sinew, tendon). (various references)

French

corde, ficelle, limon (stringer), fil (continuous strand, staple, strand), cordon (strand), chaîne. (various references)

Frisian

sine (nerve, sinew, tendon), triedzje, tou (cord, rope). (various references)

German

Strang (cord, hank, ply, rope, skein, strand, trace, tug), Sehne (chord, sinew, tendon), Schnur (braid, cord, flex, lace, lash, line, piping, rope, shoe-lace, strand, twine, wire), Saite (chord, cord), Leine (cord, lead, leash, line, rope, sheet), kette (catena, chain, chain track, Covey, file, line, mountain range, range, rank, row, series, set, shackle, skein, succession, train, turn, warp), faden (filament, hair line, leitmotif, strand, suture, thread, twine), bindfaden (packthread, twine), aufreihen (enumerate, line up, list, put in a line, put in a row, thread, to string, to string (strung). (various references)

Greek 

χορδή (catgut, chord, cord). (various references)

Hebrew 

מיתר (chord, cord, sinew), להשחיל (pull through, thread), שורה (column, file, line, pass, rank, row, succession, tier), שרוך (lace, thong, tie), שנץ (cord, lace, latch, ligature, rib, strap), קו (cord, line, outline, streak), פתיל (cord, thread, twine), חוט (cord, fiber, fibre, line, staple, strand, thread, wire), סיב (fiber, fibre, floss, staple), סדרה (bay, course, order, rally in sport, sequence, series, set, suit), נימה (capillary, hair, melody, tang, thread, trace, tune). (various references)

Hungarian

zsineg (cord, line, packthread, tie, twine), zsinór (braid, cord, cordon, flex, funiculus, gimp, lace, line, twine), madzag (twine), kötél (cord, crab, rope, strand, tether, tie, twist), húr (chord). (various references)

Icelandic

taug (cord, nerve, rope). (various references)

Indonesian

senar, tali (chord, lace, lasso, rope), mencocok (fasten, pin, prick, puncture), ikat (bind, bunch, cord to tie, tie), benang (thread, twine, yarn), bandut (cord). (various references)

Irish

sreang, téad (cord, rope, spiderweb). (various references)

Italian

spago (cord, twine), stringa (lace, shoelace, shoestring, tie), filo (blade, cable, clew, cord, edge, flex, lead, line, phylum, rope, strand, thread, twist, wire, yarn), cordicella (cord, twine), corda (chord, cord, line, rope). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

糸 (thread, yarn), 筋 (line, muscle, plan, plot, sinew, stripe), 紐 (cord, pimp), 弦 (bow string, chord, handle), ストックホルム症候群 (stock point, Stockhom syndrome, stomach, stop, stop bit, stop motion, stoplight, stopper, stopwatch, straight, straight course, straight perm, straight permanent wave, straight punch, strap, strategy, streaker, streaking, stream, streamer, street, street angel, street furniture, street girl, streetcar, streetwalker, streptomycin, stress, stretch, stretching, stride, strike, strike zone, striker, strings, strip, strip girl, strip mill, strip show, stripe, stripper, striptease, structure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すじ (line, muscle, plan, plot, sinew, stripe), ひも (cord, pimp), つる (bow string, chord, crane, handle, to be cramped, to contract, to cramp, to fish, to hang), いと (aim, design, intention, thread, treasonable intent, yarn), ストリング , げん (bow string, chord, fundamental, handle, not to be touched, original, primary, primitive, raw, remark, serious, statement, word). (various references)

Korean 

끈 (strings). (various references)

Malay

tampar (cord, rope), tali (cord, rope). (various references)

Manx

tead (cable, guy, line, loose rope, rope), strengaghey (stringing, thread, thread as beads, wire, wiring), streng (chord, line, wire), strap (line, sling), ribban, poaynt (snare), idley, cur tead er (guy, rope off), cur streng er. (various references)

Mohawk

ahseriye'. (various references)

Norwegian

tau (cord, rope), reip (cord, rope, round). (various references)

Occitan

cadena. (various references)

Papago

koawgith (to string beads), koawgi'a (string of beads). (various references)

Papiamen

liña (cord, rope), kabuya (cord, rope). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingstray.(various references)

Polish

sznur (cord, rope). (various references)

Portuguese

corda (chord, chorda, clothes line, cord, gimp, guy, hackle, halter, line, rope, spring, tie, twine), fio (clue, fountainhead, ingrain, line, strip, thread, tie, wire, yarn), cordão (astragal, cord, cordon, lace, ply, ribbon, rope, tie, twine, wale). (various references)

Romanian

strunã (bit, Catling, chord, cord, curb, rein), sfoarã (cord, line, packthread, twine, twist), serie (batch, concatenation, course, cycle, number, order, run, series, set, succession, swath), succesiune (consecution, inheritance, interchange, order, sequence, series, succession, train), fibrã (fiber, fibre, grain, lint, staple, thread), încorda (clench, draw, force, strain, tighten), înstruni, aţã (line, needleful, thread, yarn), şir (catena, catenation, column, course, file, line, pack, queue, range, rank, rope, row, series, succession, train), şirag (rope), şiret (arch, artful, canny, cord, crafty, cunning, fox-like, gimp, guileful, lace, pawkily, pawky, sharp, shifty, sly, slyboots, slyly, subtle, tricky, wily), şnur (braid, chenille, cord, cordon, in apple-pie order, lanyard, line, twine, twist), baierã (band, strap), coardã (chord, cord, rope, skipping rope, span, vein, wire), înşira (bead, enumerate, retail, thread, utter), deveni fibros, instrument cu coarde, lanţ (bands, cable, catena, catenation, chain, concatenation, fetters, link, range, ridge, series, succession, train), lega cu sfoarã (cord, lace), nervurã (fin, nervure, rib, vein), pune coarda la, rând (batch, bout, file, innings, it, line, queue, range, rank, round, row, series, stage, stem, succession, time, train, turn), cordon (belt, cord, cordon, girdle, rim, strap). (various references)

Russian 

струна (chord, cord), строка (line), шнурок (braid, cord, drawstring, lace, shoelace, shoestring, tie), гирлянда изоляторов, веревка (coil, cord, lashing, line, rope, tie), натягивать (draw, draw on, pull on, strain, stretch, tauten, tense, tighten), нанизывать (thread), затяжка (draught, toke, whiff), завязывать, бечевка (packthread, twine, whipcord). (various references)

Scottish

sreang (a string), teud (a string, cord, string of musical), iall (a thong, leathern thong). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

struna (horsehair), sastav (composition, contexture, line up, lineup, makeup, structure), obesiti (gibbet, hang, hang up, sling, string up, suspend, tuck up), žica (cable, chord, cord, wire), gudački (stringed), kanap (packthread, rope, twine), konac (thread), nanizati (thread), niska (beads), žičani (funicular, wire, wired), nizati (repeat), vrpca (band, bow, braid, cord, ribbon, tape), polagati (lay, place, repose, take), postaviti (appoint, designate, induct, instal, install, mount, pad, picket, pitch, place, plant, pose, posit, post, put, quilt, seat, set, set out, set up, situate), tetiva (chord, hamstring, ligament, sinew, tendon), uzica (lace, leading strings, leash, tie), niz (along, down at, line, row, run, sequence, series, tissue). (various references)

Shona

-tunga chuma (to string beads). (various references)

Spanish

cuerda (chanterelle, chord, chorda, cord, guy, lead, line, pull, rope, tether), mondar habas, cordel (cord, line), cadena (bond, catena, catenation, chain, cuff, gaol, jail, jess, link, network, pull, ridge). (various references)

Sranan

titey (cord, rope). (various references)

Swahili

uzi (cord, rope). (various references)

Swedish

sträng (astringent, austere, chaste, chord, dour, grueling, gruelling, hard, harsh, inclement, intemperate, rigorous, severe, strict, swath, unbending, wire), snodd (band, cord, lace, lacing, laniard, lanyard, rope), band (band, bands, belt, bevy, bind, binding, bond, bonds, cover, fret, gang, hoop, lead, leash, ligament, orchestra, restraint, ribbon, sling, tape, tie, tied, volume). (various references)

Tagalog

lúbid (cord, rope). (various references)

Turkish

sicim (cord, ficelle, rope, twine), sıralamak (align, Aline, arrange, array, collate, collocate, compile, concatenate, juxtapose, line up, Marshal, put in order, range), sıra halinde gitmek, kılçıklarını ayıklamak, şart (circumstance, condition, if, must, necessarily, proviso, reservation, reserve, state, stipulation, understanding), bağ (alliance, bandage, beginnings, binder, bond, brace, connection, connexion, copula, copulation, cord, corelate, daughter, desmo-, fascia, fastener, fastening, header, knot, lace, league, ligament, ligature, link, linkage, linkup, nexus, noose, relation, relationship, tie, tie up, truss, vinculum, vine, vineyard, yoke), bağcık (bootlace, lace, lacing, shoelace, shoestring), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed), düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, compose, construct, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, execute, fix up, forge, form, frame, get things square, get up, give, grade, lay out, line up, methodize, Mount, order, organize, promote, put up, regularize, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, stage, whack up, work up), damar (blood vessel, grain, nerve, phlebo-, streak, vascular, vein, vessel), dizi (battery, chain, cluster, course, cycle, order, progression, queue, range, rank, rope, round, row, sequence, serial, series, set, tier, train), dizmek (align, Aline, arrange in a row, draw up, juxtapose, Marshal, range, rank, set, set in type, set out, set up in type), germek (bag, distend, draw, hang on, lift, rack, span, sprawl out, stay, strain, stretch, stretch out, tauten, tense, tighten, tighten up), ip (cord, halter, lanyard, lap, rope, tether, tightrope, twist), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cheat, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, fake, feint, finagle, Fox, gammon, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize), kılçık (awn, bone, fishbone, fish's spine, spine), yutturmak (con, deceive, diddle, dish out, fob, fob off smth. on smb., foist, palm off, plant, put across, put off, put over), kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), kiriş (balk, baulk, beam, bowstring, catgut, chord, girder, gut, joist, ligament, rafter, rib, sinew, span, stringcourse, Stringer, tendinous, tendon, tie, tie beam, timber, traverse, wire), koşul (circumstance, condition, provision, proviso, requirement, state, stipulation, term), kordon (cord, cordon, funicle, funiculus, lanyard), lif (fiber, fibre, fibroid, fibrous, filament, film, staple, thread, washcloth), takmak (affix, attach, bother, fix, fixate, give a damn, hang, hang on, hitch, hook, infix, set, snag, stick, stock, thread, wear), tel (chord, fiber, fibre, thread, wire, wiry), yay (arc, arch, bow, coil, coil spring, release, spring), ipe dizmek (thread). (various references)

Turkmen 

яьp (yarn), dьzmek (thread). (various references)

Ukrainian

струна (chord, wire), ряд (batch, catena, file, line, number, order, range, rank, row, series), вірьовка (bast, lariat, lashing, rope), настроювати (adjust, attune, bias, control, harmonize, syntonize, tone, tune), натягувати (brace, draw on, pull, pull on, shuffle on, tense), зав'язувати (fasten up, line, string together), приладнувати струну. (various references)

Vietnamese 

xâu (strung), dây (catena, chain, guy, lace, line, strung, tape), băng (band, fascia, fasciae, millinery, strung, swathe). (various references)

Welsh

tant (chord), rhimyn (strip), rheffyn (cord, rigamarole), rhaff (cord, rope), llinynnu, llinyn (line, twine), cordyn (cord, rope), arwest (minstrelsy). (various references)

Yucatec

suum (cord, lasso, rope). (various references)

Zulu

intambo (cord, rope). (various references)

dur. (various references)

khorde. (various references)

ceruchus, chorda, copulae, fides, fila, fili, filo, filum, funiculi, funiculis, funiculo, funiculos, funiculosque, funiculum, funiculus, funis, ligamen, linea, lineae, lineam, linearum, lineas, lineis, nervi, nervicis, nervo, nervos, nervum, nervus, versibus, versum, versumque, versus, versuum. (various references)

snaar. (various references)

las. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "string": stringcourse, stringcourses, stringed, stringencies, stringency, stringendo, stringent, stringently, stringer, stringers, stringhalt, stringhalted, stringhalts, stringier, stringiest, stringiness, stringinesses, stringing, stringings, stringless, stringpiece, stringpieces, strings, stringy, stringybark, stringybarks. (additional references)

Words ending with "string": bowstring, drawstring, hamstring, heartstring, latchstring, lustring, lutestring, restring, shoestring, superstring, unstring. (additional references)

Words containing "string": astringe, astringed, astringencies, astringency, astringent, astringently, astringents, astringes, astringing, bowstrings, constringe, constringed, constringent, constringes, constringing, drawstrings, eyestrings, hamstringing, hamstrings, heartstrings, latchstrings, lustrings, lutestrings, restringing, restrings, shoestrings, superstrings, unstringing, unstrings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"String" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astrin, astring, Ostrin, sbring, sering, serring, shring, sotring, sring, stering, stingo, stiring, stirn, stnin, strag, strangr, straung, streng, strengh, strengi, strent, strig, strine, stringe, strink, strking, Sturing, syring, tring. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: girns, girts, grins, grist, grits, rings, sting, tings, trigs.

-2 letters: gins, girn, girt, gist, gits, grin, grit, nits, rigs, ring, rins, sign, sing, snit, stir, ting, tins, trig.

-3 letters: gin, git, ins, its, nit, rig, rin, sin, sir, sit, sri, tin, tis.

-4 letters: in, is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: gastrin, gratins, ratings, resting, rusting, sorting, staring, stinger, storing, strings, stringy, trigons.

+2 letters: angriest, astringe, bursting, cresting, crusting, frosting, ganister, gantries, gastrins, genitors, gentries, gitterns, granitas, granites, gratings, igniters, ignitors, ingrafts, ingrates, integers, kartings, lustring, migrants, organist, outgrins, outrings, partings, rangiest, reesting, resiting, restring, ringgits, ringlets, ringtaws, ringtoss, roasting, roosting, rousting, rustling, scarting, shirting, shorting, skirting, smarting, snorting, spirting, sporting, spurting, starling, starring, starting, starving, steering, sterling, stingers, stingier, stingray, stirring, storming, storying, strafing, strawing, straying, strewing, striding, striking, stringed, stringer, striping, striving, stroking, strowing, stroying, suturing, tinglers, tourings, tracings, trashing, trigness, trussing, trusting, trysting, turnings, unstring, worsting, wresting, writings.