string

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   stringed instruments that are played with a bow

   the strings played superlatively well

2. 2
   noun

   a necklace made by a stringing objects together

   a string of beads

3. 3
   noun

   a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening

   I pulled the string and closed the bag.

4. 4
   noun

   a linear sequence of symbols, characters, words, or phrases

   The function only accepts strings as parameters.

5. 5
   noun

   a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding

   a string of islands

6. 6
   verb

   add as if on a string

   string these ideas together

7. 7
   verb

   provide with strings

   string my guitar

8. 8
   verb

   thread on or as if on a string

   string pearls on a string

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…