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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

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