“stringed” is a form of
string
/stɹɪŋ/ noun, verb
Forms strings stringing strung stringed strang
- noun (countable, uncountable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together. “She bought cotton thread to use to make string.”
- noun (figurative, sometimes plural) Control; influence. “I always know what position he'll take because the Chairwoman of the Board has her string on him.”
- noun (figurative, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively. “The deal sounds good, but what are the strings?”
- noun (figurative) A controlling inner sense, emotion, memory, etc. “tug on the heart strings”
- noun (basketball, figurative) Control over the basketball in a game; the state of being in sync as a team, as if connected by a string. “You have to get the ball on an absolute string.”
- noun (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible material. “The headdress's frame is made with strings of gold.”
- noun (sports) A length of nylon or other material comprising the webbing on the head of a racquet or the mesh pocket of a lacrosse stick.
- noun (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants. “the strings of beans; a string bean”
- verb (transitive) To put (items) on a string. “You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.”
- verb (transitive) To put strings on (something). “It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.”
- verb (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- verb (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.
- verb (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.
Synonyms
cord rope line thread twine conditions provisions stringbed string section chain streak sequence series succession cheese pull stringiness kermi baulk line string line lagging bowed stringed instrument train drawstring drawing string cosmic string strand draw string up string along
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Etymology
From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”).
Cognate with Scots string (“string”), Dutch streng (“cord, strand”), Low German strenge (“strand, cord, rope”), German Strang (“strand, cord, rope”), Danish streng (“string”), Swedish sträng (“string, cord, wire”), Icelandic strengur (“string”), Latvian stringt (“to be tight, wither”), Latin stringō (“to tighten”), Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “halter”), Ancient Greek στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).
From Middle English stryngen, strengen, from the noun (see above).
Webster’s 1913
- noun A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string. Shak.
- noun 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; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments. "A string of islands." Gibbon.
- verb To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
- verb To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it. For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung. Addison.
Etymology [OE. string, streng, AS. streng; akin to D. streng, G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. sträng, Dan. stræng; probably from the adj., E. strong (see Strong); or perhaps originally meaning, twisted, and akin to E. strangle.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “string”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details