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Quote:Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.[Theodor Seuss Geisel]Definitions of: stringDefinition: 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.Definition: 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. Definition: A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. Definition: The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme. Definition: The line or cord of a bow. Definition: A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root. Definition: A nerve or tendon of an animal body. Definition: An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. Definition: The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans. Definition: A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. Definition: Same as Stringcourse. Definition: The points made in a game. Definition: In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire. Definition: In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc. Definition: 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; -- called also string line. Definition: Act of stringing for break. Definition: A hoax; a trumped-up or “fake” story. Definition: a sequence of similar objects or events sufficiently close in time or space to be perceived as a group; a string of accidents; a string of restaurants on a highway. Definition: A one-dimensional string-like mathematical object used as a means of representing the properties of fundamental particles in string theory, one theory of particle physics; such hypothetical objects are one-dimensional and very small (10-33 cm) but exist in more than four spatial dimensions, and have various modes of vibration. Considering particles as strings avoids some of the problems of treating particles as points, and allows a unified treatment of gravity along with the other three forces (electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force) in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics. See also string theory. Definition: To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. |
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