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Definition: Stringer |
StringerNoun1. A member of a squad on a team; "a first stringer"; "a second stringer". 2. A worker who strings; "a stringer of beads". 3. Brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull. 4. A long horizontal timber to connect uprights. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stringer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
Note: Stringer \String"er\ (str[i^]ng"[~e]r), noun. 1. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. Be content to put your trust in honest stringers. --Ascham. 2. A libertine; a wencher. [Obsolete]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A slender, lightweight, lengthwise fill-in structural member in a rocket body, or the like, serving to reinforce and give shape to the skin. (references) |
Building | A long, horizontal member which connects uprights in a frame or supports a floor or the like. One of the enclosed sides of a stair supporting the treads and risers. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | An edge beam or member along the side of a flight. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | A newspaper reporter who serves another publication or a news agency part time -distinguished from staffer. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | In rafts, a transverse pole to which the floating timber is tied. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | A thin, discontinuous mineral vein or rock layer. (references) |
Mining | A. A mineral veinlet or filament, usually one of a number, occurring in a discontinuous subparallel pattern in host rock. See also:stringer lod b. A thin layer of coal at the top of a bed, separating in places from the main coal by material similar to that comprising the roof. c. A heavy timber or plank, usually horizontal but sometimes inclined, supporting other members of a structure; also, the horizontal crosspiece in square set timbering.d. See:roof stringer. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | A group of fuel elements in the form of rods or pins, usually mounted parallel to one another. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Marks top surface of coated candies with identifying or decorative stroke to simulate hand-dipped appearance: Dips fingers in semiliquid chocolate or other coating and marks candies with diagonal line, bead, or other design as candies emerge from enrobing (coating) machine on conveyor. May mark tops of candies with symbol to identify type of center or flavor of candy. (references) |
| Strings jewelry articles on wire or hangs articles on racks preparatory to further processing, such as soldering, cleaning, plating, or stripping, and carries to machine operator. May clean machines. May be designated according to specific operation performed as Stringer-Up, Soldering Machine (jewelry-silver.). (references) | |
| Adds wire tie or binding string to paper tags by tying or twisting precut lengths of string or wire through holes in ends of tag. May count tags and tie them into bundles of prescribed number. May be designated according to type of tag as Garment-Tag Stringer (paper goods). (references) | |
Transportation | Fore-and-aft strength member girder. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Stringer |
| Specialty definitions using "stringer": assembler, slide fastener stringers ♦ BEAD STRINGER, boat bottomer ♦ chain-machine operator, COLORING CHECKER ♦ DEBURRER ♦ FISHING ACCESSORIES MAKER, FISH-STRINGER ASSEMBLER ♦ hand worker ♦ lagging bar ♦ OVERLAY PLASTICIAN ♦ PIANO TECHNICIAN ♦ scoop-machine operator, SLIDE-FASTENER-CHAIN ASSEMBLER ♦ wire-brushing-machine operator ♦ zipper joiner, ZIPPER TRIMMER, MACHINE, ZIPPER-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stringer (1988) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | On May 7, authorities refused to renew the press accreditation of Maria Kozlova a stringer for United Press International. (references) |
Rwanda | In May a journalist working as a stringer for the Voice of America (VOA) was harassed after filing a report disputed by the authorities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stringer" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.38% of the time. "Stringer" is used about 130 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 85.38% | 111 | 30,796 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.62% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 130 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "stringer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stringer | Last name | 8,000 | 1,612 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Stringer, MS |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "stringer": three-stringer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stringer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Tru Shkalle, Tra Mbështetës, Damar I Hollë Minerali. (various references) | |
Arabic | محرر محلي, مراسل صحفي محلي, ضلع طولاني مساعد, ركيزة السلم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Подпорна "реда, Акордьор, Нещатен "описник, Надлъжна "реда, Жила. (various references) | |
Chinese | 纵梁. (various references) | |
Danish | stringer, sekundær bjælke (longitudinal member), vange (bed, longitudinal bar, pile cap, string), tvaerstok, trappevange (string), langstrakt indeslutning (line inclusion), langskibsspant (longitudinal rib), længdedrager (longitudinal, longitudinal member), knippe (bundle, cluster, cluster of fuel elements, fuel bundle, fuel cluster), braendselelementknippe (cluster, cluster of fuel elements, fuel bundle, fuel cluster). (various references) | |
Dutch | stringer, splijtstofelementenbundel (cluster, cluster of fuel elements, fuel bundle, fuel cluster), snoer van insluitsels (line inclusion, line inclusions), snoer van insluitingen (line inclusion, line inclusions), trapboom (string), langsspant, langsligger (longeron, longitudinal member, spar), langsdrager (girder, longitudinal deck beam, longitudinal member), dwarsligger op een vlot, boom (tree). (various references) | |
Farsi | چنگک گوشت , نوازنده ساز, تراورس عمودی . (various references) | |
Finnish | sulkeumaviiva (line inclusion), vaakajäykkääjä, reunapalkki (string). (various references) | |
French | Serre (string), Reporter Local, Raidisseur (stiffener). (various references) | |
German | Stringer (stiffener), Saitenaufzieher, zeilenfoermiger Einschluss (line inclusion, line inclusions), Zangenbalken (longitudinal member), Wange (cheek, jowl, stringboard), Treppenwange (string), Pfetten (purlin, purline), Laengsspant, Längsträger (longitudinal, longitudinal member), Brennstoffbuendel (cluster, cluster of fuel elements, fuel bundle, fuel cluster), Brennstabbuendel (cluster, cluster of fuel elements, fuel bundle, fuel cluster), Brennelementbuendel (cluster, cluster of fuel elements, fuel bundle, fuel cluster). (various references) | |
Greek | κλιμακόπλευρο (string), σκαλομέρι (string), συνοχεύς,αμφιδέτης, γραμμή εγκλεισμάτων (line inclusions), μηκίδα (longitudinal member), εγκλείσματα σε μορφή συνεχούς γραμμής (line inclusion), λώρος, λούρος, "οκόσ, δέσμη στοιχείων πυρηνικού καυσίμου (cluster, cluster of fuel elements, fuel bundle, fuel cluster), ατερό. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Húrozó. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembantu (accessory, aide, assistant, auxiliary, helper). (various references) | |
Italian | sostegno di scala (string), longherina (longitudinal member), corrente orizzontale, cosciale (above-knee prosthesis, string), difetti delle saldature (line inclusions, welding defects), fascio di elementi di combustibile (cluster, cluster of fuel elements, fuel bundle, fuel cluster), inclusioni allineate (line inclusion), linea di inclusioni (line inclusion), corrente (current, drift, flow, flowing, fluent, going, instant, ordinary, power, present, running, rush, smooth, stream, swim, tide), longarina (beam, girder, kerb, longitudinal bar, pile cap, ribband, string), Vena (inspiration, jugular, lode, mood, seam, streak, vein), longherone (arbor), ordinata longitudinale, orlo (border, brim, brink, brow, edge, edging, fringe, hem, kerb, lip, outskirt, rand, rim, verge), rinforzo longitudinale (longitudinal member), trave porta gradue (string), traversa di una zattera di tronchi, listone. (various references) | |
Manx | strengeyder, maidjey kianglee (tie, tie-beam). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingerstray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | longarina (boom, longeron). (various references) | |
Russian | Продольная Балка, Тетива Лестницы, балка;прожилок, Стрингер. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nizalac, nameštač žica, mosnica, izrađivač tetiva. (various references) | |
Spanish | Larguero (crossbar, lavish, lengthy, slow-working, support). (various references) | |
Swedish | stråkformig inneslutning (line inclusion), vangstycke (string), vang (string), bockrygg (ledger, longitudinal member). (various references) | |
Turkish | Tel Takan Kimse, Kiriş (balk, baulk, beam, bowstring, catgut, chord, girder, gut, joist, ligament, rafter, rib, sinew, span, string, stringcourse, tendinous, tendon, tie, tie beam, timber, traverse, wire), Dayanma Profilleri. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Прогін, Поздовжня Балка, Стрингер. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stringer": stringers. (additional references) | |
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"Stringer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cottringer, Ottinger, Scharinger, Shteingel, strangr, strengi, striger, stringe, stringere, stringet, sttringer, tutzinger. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stringer" (pronounced stri"nger) |
| 4 | -r i" ng er | ringer, springer, wringer. |
| 3 | -i" ng er | binger, Clinger, dinger, singer, Slinger, stinger, swinger, winger, zinger. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: restring. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: resting, ringers, stinger. | |
-2 letters: engirt, erring, estrin, inerts, ingest, insert, inters, niters, nitres, reigns, renigs, rerigs, resign, ringer, rinser, sering, signer, signet, singer, sinter, string, tigers, tinges, triens, triers, trines. | |
-3 letters: gents, girns, girts, grins, grist, grits, inert, inset, inter, neist, nerts, niter, nites, nitre, reign, reins, renig, rents, rerig, resin, rings, rinse. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: arresting, resorting, restoring, restrings, serrating, stringers, stringier. | |
+2 letters: bestirring, enregister, ferretings, garnitures, interreges, intriguers, presorting, registrant, restarting, restriking, restriving, ringmaster, roistering, roystering, songwriter, traversing, treasuring. | |
+3 letters: arrestingly, brighteners, denigrators, enregisters, fortressing, garnierites, gentrifiers, gingerroots, heartstring, integrators, intergrades, intergrafts, interrogees, prewritings, progenitors, quarterings, rearresting, reasserting, reassorting, redshirting, reforesting, registering, registrants, reinserting, remastering, resprouting, restraining, restressing, restricting, restringing, ringmasters, ringstraked, songwriters, springwater, strangering, stranguries, superstring, terrigenous, terrorising, trailerings, transfigure. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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