String

French Meaning

English Meaning

1. A cord usually made of fiber, used for fastening, tying, or lacing.
2. Something configured as a long, thin line: limp strings of hair.
3. A plant fiber.
4. A set of objects threaded together: a string of beads.
5. A series of similar or related acts, events, or items arranged or falling in or as if in a line. See Synonyms at series.
6. Computer Science A set of consecutive characters.
7. Informal A set of animals, especially racehorses, belonging to a single owner; a stable.
8. Informal A scattered group of businesses under a single ownership or management: a string of boutiques.
9. Sports A group of players ranked according to ability within a team: He made the second string.
10. Music A cord stretched on an instrument and struck, plucked, or bowed to produce tones.
11. Music The section of a band or orchestra composed of stringed instruments.
12. Music Stringed instruments or their players considered as a group.
13. Architecture A stringboard.
14. Architecture A stringcourse.
15. Games The balk line in billiards.
16. Sports A complete game consisting of ten frames in bowling.
17. Informal A limiting or hidden condition. Often used in the plural: a gift with no strings attached.
18. To fit or furnish with strings or a string: string a guitar.
19. To thread on a string.
20. To arrange in a string or series. Often used with out.
21. To fasten, tie, or hang with a string or strings.
22. To stretch out or extend: string a wire across a room.
23. To strip (vegetables) of fibers.
24. To form strings or become stringlike.
25. To extend or progress in a string, line, or succession.
26. string along Informal To go along with something; agree.
27. string along Informal To keep (someone) waiting or in a state of uncertainty.
28. string along Informal To fool, cheat, or deceive.
29. string out To draw out; prolong.
30. string up Informal To kill (someone) by hanging.
31. a Under one's complete control or influence.