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noun
- A string.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
- A street.
- (informal) Synonym of track.
- (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
- (formal) A specialization of a senior high school track.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
verb
- (baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
- (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
- (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
- (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
- leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
- bring to the ground
- drive (a vessel) ashore
adj
- consisting of or containing string or strings
- Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
- (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- forming viscous or glutinous threads
- lean and sinewy
- (of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.
- (birdwatching) Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.
- (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
- (programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.
adj
noun
- (physics, string theory) One of Multiple simultaneously vibrating strings.
- (programming, data structures) A data structure that represents multiple text strings.
- (CAD) A component of a model representing multiple parallel strings or lines.
- A musical instrument designed to have multiple strings played simultaneously.
verb
- stretch out or arrange like a string
- provide with strings
- string together; tie or fasten with a string
- (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
- (transitive) To put strings on (something).
- add as if on a string
- thread on or as if on a string
- remove the stringy parts of
- move or come along
- (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.
- (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
noun
- a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
- a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.)
- (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
- a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
- a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket
- a lightweight cord
- stringed instruments that are played with a bow
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
- (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
- (figurative, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- (oil industry) A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (using the mud pumps) and torque (using the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
- (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.
- A slightly elevated (long, thin) peat ridge in a bog.
- (carpentry) A board supporting steps
- (countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- (countable, uncountable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- (architecture, masonry) A stringcourse.
- (music, metonymic, countable) A stringed instrument.
- (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) A series of items or events.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- 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.
- (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- (historical, billiards) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- (music) A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical 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.
- (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.
- (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- (billiards, by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.
- (sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- (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.
- (slang) Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”).
- (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- (countable, physics) A tiny one-dimensional string-like entity, the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
adj
- Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
- Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
- Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.
- Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.
- tangled in knots or snarls
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
noun
verb
noun
- (programming) The operation of joining multiple character strings.
- (programming) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.
- (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
- (countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
- the act of linking together as in a series or chain
- the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc
verb
- string on a wire
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- equip for use with electricity
- fasten with wire
- provide with electrical circuits
- To string on a wire.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
noun
- ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- a message transmitted by telegraph
- the finishing line on a racetrack
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
noun
- (Northern England) A string; a thread or strand.
- (Northern England) A long straggling branch; a spur at the end of a pea-stick.
- (Northern England, Scotland) Lineage, descent.
- (Scotland) A small stream, streamlet; a trickle of water, the run of spilt liquid.
- (Northern England, Scotland) The tread (chalaza) of an egg.
- (Northern England) A ditch or water-channel.
verb
verb
- string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)
- clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
- (intransitive) To form clusters or lumps; to clump.
- (linguistics) To form through agglutination.
- (transitive) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a small ball with a hole through the middle
- a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
- A bubble, in spirits.
- A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
- Various small, round solid objects.
- (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
- (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
- A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
- A small drop of water or other liquid.
noun
- (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
- (British, uncountable) Border morris or border dancing.
- The outer edge of something.
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- a line that indicates a boundary
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- the boundary of a surface
- the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
- a strip forming the outer edge of something
verb
- (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- (transitive) To put a border on something.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- provide with a border or edge
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
verb
- (of a rope, intransitive) To slacken by lengthening.
- (nautical, transitive) To slacken a rope by lengthening it; to allow a rope to run out.
- To repay, take revenge.
- (Australia, informal, transitive) To make fun of or insult, often in a teasing manner.
- To distribute money; to disburse.
- expend, as from a fund
noun
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- (bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- Duration.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively) Total extent.
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- (wine) The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
- (slang) A penis.
- a section of something that is long and narrow
- the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
- size of the gap between two places
- continuance in time
- the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
noun
- the act of lengthening something
- the quality of being elongated
- an addition to the length of something
- The state of being lengthened.
- That which lengthens out; a continuation.
- The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching.
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a planet from the sun.
- A removal to a distance; a withdrawal; a being at a distance; a distance.
- The act of lengthening.
adj
- of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong
- (British informal) very poor in quality
- forming viscous or glutinous threads
- Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
- Of milk or another liquid: slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) Of poor quality; in poor health.
- Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
verb
- To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen.
- To become long or longer, for example, by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
- (botany) Of a plant part: to grow long; also, to have a long and slender or tapering form.
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
adj
verb
noun
noun
- A string.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
- A street.
- (informal) Synonym of track.
- (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
- (formal) A specialization of a senior high school track.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
verb
- (baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
- (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
- (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
- (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
- leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
- bring to the ground
- drive (a vessel) ashore
noun
verb
noun
- (programming) The operation of joining multiple character strings.
- (programming) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.
- (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
- (countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
- the act of linking together as in a series or chain
- the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc
noun
- (Northern England) A string; a thread or strand.
- (Northern England) A long straggling branch; a spur at the end of a pea-stick.
- (Northern England, Scotland) Lineage, descent.
- (Scotland) A small stream, streamlet; a trickle of water, the run of spilt liquid.
- (Northern England, Scotland) The tread (chalaza) of an egg.
- (Northern England) A ditch or water-channel.
verb
noun
- (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
- (British, uncountable) Border morris or border dancing.
- The outer edge of something.
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- a line that indicates a boundary
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- the boundary of a surface
- the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
- a strip forming the outer edge of something
verb
- (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- (transitive) To put a border on something.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- provide with a border or edge
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
noun
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- (bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- Duration.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively) Total extent.
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- (wine) The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
- (slang) A penis.
- a section of something that is long and narrow
- the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
- size of the gap between two places
- continuance in time
- the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
noun
- the act of lengthening something
- the quality of being elongated
- an addition to the length of something
- The state of being lengthened.
- That which lengthens out; a continuation.
- The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching.
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a planet from the sun.
- A removal to a distance; a withdrawal; a being at a distance; a distance.
- The act of lengthening.
verb
- stretch out or arrange like a string
- provide with strings
- string together; tie or fasten with a string
- (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
- (transitive) To put strings on (something).
- add as if on a string
- thread on or as if on a string
- remove the stringy parts of
- move or come along
- (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.
- (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
noun
- a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
- a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.)
- (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
- a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
- a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket
- a lightweight cord
- stringed instruments that are played with a bow
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
- (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
- (figurative, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- (oil industry) A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (using the mud pumps) and torque (using the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
- (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.
- A slightly elevated (long, thin) peat ridge in a bog.
- (carpentry) A board supporting steps
- (countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- (countable, uncountable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- (architecture, masonry) A stringcourse.
- (music, metonymic, countable) A stringed instrument.
- (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) A series of items or events.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- 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.
- (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- (historical, billiards) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- (music) A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical 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.
- (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.
- (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- (billiards, by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.
- (sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- (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.
- (slang) Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”).
- (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- (countable, physics) A tiny one-dimensional string-like entity, the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
verb
- string on a wire
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- equip for use with electricity
- fasten with wire
- provide with electrical circuits
- To string on a wire.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
noun
- ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- a message transmitted by telegraph
- the finishing line on a racetrack
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
verb
- string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)
- clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
- (intransitive) To form clusters or lumps; to clump.
- (linguistics) To form through agglutination.
- (transitive) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a small ball with a hole through the middle
- a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
- A bubble, in spirits.
- A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
- Various small, round solid objects.
- (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
- (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
- A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
- A small drop of water or other liquid.
verb
- (of a rope, intransitive) To slacken by lengthening.
- (nautical, transitive) To slacken a rope by lengthening it; to allow a rope to run out.
- To repay, take revenge.
- (Australia, informal, transitive) To make fun of or insult, often in a teasing manner.
- To distribute money; to disburse.
- expend, as from a fund
verb
- To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen.
- To become long or longer, for example, by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
- (botany) Of a plant part: to grow long; also, to have a long and slender or tapering form.
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
adj
verb
noun
adj
- consisting of or containing string or strings
- Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
- (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- forming viscous or glutinous threads
- lean and sinewy
- (of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.
- (birdwatching) Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.
- (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
- (programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.
adj
noun
- (physics, string theory) One of Multiple simultaneously vibrating strings.
- (programming, data structures) A data structure that represents multiple text strings.
- (CAD) A component of a model representing multiple parallel strings or lines.
- A musical instrument designed to have multiple strings played simultaneously.
adj
- Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
- Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
- Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.
- Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.
- tangled in knots or snarls
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
adj
- of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong
- (British informal) very poor in quality
- forming viscous or glutinous threads
- Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
- Of milk or another liquid: slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) Of poor quality; in poor health.
- Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.