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string

(strĭng)

a. Material made of drawn-out, twisted fiber, used for fastening, tying, or lacing.

b. A strand or cord of such material.

2. Music

a. A cord stretched on an instrument and struck, plucked, or bowed to produce tones.

b. strings The section of a band or orchestra composed of stringed instruments, especially violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.

c. strings Stringed instruments or their players considered as a group.

3. Something resembling a string or appearing as a long, thin line: limp strings of hair.

4. A plant fiber.

5. Physics One of the extremely minute objects that form the basis of string theory.

a. A set of objects threaded together or attached on a string: a string of beads.

b. A number of objects arranged in a line: a string of islands.

c. Computers A set of consecutive characters.

7. A series of similar or related acts, events, or items: a string of victories. See Synonyms at series.

a. A set of animals, especially racehorses, belonging to a single owner; a stable.

b. A scattered group of businesses under a single ownership or management: a string of boutiques.

9. Sports

a. A group of players ranked according to ability within a team: He made the second string.

b. A complete game consisting of ten frames in bowling.

10. Architecture

a. A stringboard.

b. A stringcourse.

11. Games The balk line in billiards.

12. Informal A limiting or hidden condition. Often used in the plural: a gift with no strings attached.

v. strung (strŭng), string·ing, strings

v.tr.

1. To fit or furnish with strings or a string: string a guitar; string a tennis racket.

2. To stretch out or extend: string a wire across a room.

3. To thread on a string: string popcorn.

4. To arrange in a line or series: strung the words into a sentence.

5. To fasten, tie, or hang with a string or strings: string a hammock between trees.

6. To strip (vegetables) of fibers.

v.intr.

To extend or progress in a string, line, or succession: "We followed the others stringing through the narrow paved paths" (Susan Richards Shreve).

Phrasal Verbs:

string along Informal

1. To go along with something; agree.

2. To keep (someone) waiting or in a state of uncertainty.

3. To fool, cheat, or deceive.

string out

To draw out; prolong.

string up Informal

To kill (someone) by hanging.

Idiom:

on a/the string

Under one's complete control or influence.

[Middle English, from Old English streng.]

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Verb	1.	string up - kill by hanging; "The murderer was hanged on Friday" hang execute, put to death - kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment; "In some states, criminals are executed" halter - hang with a halter gibbet - hang on an execution instrument
	2.	string up - add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical" string add - make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of; "We added two students to that dorm room"; "She added a personal note to her letter"; "Add insult to injury"; "Add some extra plates to the dinner table"

string

noun

1. A group of people or things arranged in a row:

column, file, line, queue, rank, row, tier.

2. A number of things placed or occurring one after the other:

chain, consecution, course, order, procession, progression, round, run, sequence, series, succession, suite, train.

Informal: streak.

3. Informal. A restricting or modifying element.Often used in plural:

condition, provision, proviso, qualification, reservation, specification, stipulation, term (often used in plural).

verb

To put (objects) onto a fine continuous filament:

thread.

phrasal verb
string up

Informal. To execute by suspending by the neck:

gibbet, hang.

Slang: swing.

Translations

appendere

w>string up

vt sep

(= suspend with string) → aufhängen; (inf: = hang) → aufknüpfen (inf)

? strung-up

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'I don't know the reason why we don't give a hundred percent effort every game but the second half proved that once we get our acts together we're able to string up some victories.'

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The problem with the Dalkon Shield string was that bacteria in the vagina would not only rest on the string but would move into it, and then move (or "wick') inside the string up into the germ-free uterus, causing pelvic infection.