string
IPA: strˈɪŋ
noun
- (countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- (uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
- (countable) A thread.
- (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
- (music) A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- (sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- 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.
- (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- (countable) A series of items or events.
- (countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
- (countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
- (collective) A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
- (countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- (music, metonymically, countable) A stringed instrument.
- (music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
- (figurative, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- (countable, physics) A tiny one-dimensional string-like entity, the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
- (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
- (billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
- (historical, billiards) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- (billiards, by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.
- (billiards, pool) 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; also called the string line.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- (archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
- (archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
- (carpentry) A board supporting steps
- (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- (architecture, masonry) A stringcourse.
- (dated, slang) A hoax; a fake story.
- Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
- (oil industry) A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
verb
- (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
- (transitive) To put strings on (something).
- (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- (intransitive, billiards) To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- (birdwatching) To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
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Examples of "string" in Sentences
- I undid the tangled strings.
- This string of clauses is gawky.
- I unknotted the tangled strings.
- The client tightened the strings.
- The strings are hooked to the pins.
- The string is then severed with a knife.
- The girl secanted the string with a kife.
- The bass recitative is accompanied by the strings.
- Position = 0; private string EncryptString (string _string)
- On string instruments, plucking the strings is called pizzicato.
- InnerXml; private string DecryptString (string _string) _string =
- The hollow chamber underneath the strings will resonate with the string above.
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- How to let awk consider a string by double quota as one field? for example: echo "first \" second is a string\ "" | awk '{print $2}'
- "You have made a continuous circle," said the cat. aoc power leveling "Does any point along the string appear to be different, worse or better than any other part of the string？"
- When a text file includes carriage return (\r\n) and when I search for a string in the file .. the code terminates and with found flag as below code foreach ($lines as $line_num = > $line): if (strpos ($string, $line) = = = false):
- /* metadata. h * /const std:: string& DatabaseMetaData:: getDatabaseProductName (); std:: string DatabaseMetaData:: getDatabaseProductVersion (); const std:: string& DatabaseMetaData:: getDriverName (); const std:: string& DatabaseMetaData:: getDriverVersion ();