| word | string |
|---|---|
| definition | noun String is thin rope made of twisted threads, used for tying things together or tying up parcels . He held out a small bag tied with string. ...a shiny metallic coin on a string. A string of things is a number of them on a piece of string, thread, or wire. She wore a string of pearls around her neck. ...a string of fairy lights. A string of places or objects is a number of them that form a line. The landscape is broken only by a string of villages. A string of five rowing boats set out from the opposite bank. A string of similar events is a series of them that happen one after the other. The incident was the latest in a string of attacks. Between 1940 and 1943 he had a string of 62 consecutive victories. The strings on a musical instrument such as a violin or guitar are the thin pieces of wire or nylon stretched across it that make sounds when the instrument is played. He went off to change a guitar string. ...a twenty-one-string harp. The strings are the section of an orchestra which consists of stringed instruments played with a bow . The strings provided a melodic background to the passages played by the soloist. There was a 20-member string section. In computing, a string is a particular series of letters, numbers, symbols, or spaces, for example a word or phrase that you want to search for in a document. verb If you string something somewhere, you hang it up between two or more objects. He had strung a banner across the wall. People were stringing up decorations on the fronts of their homes. |
| inflections | stringsstringingstrung |
| cefr-level | B1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1
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