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string
English
Etymology
From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English streng (“string, cord, rope; tackle, rigging; ligament, ligature, sinew; line, lineage”), from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *streng?- (“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 string? (“I tighten”), Ancient Greek ????????????? (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from ????????? (strangál?, “halter”), Ancient Greek ???????? (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st???/
- Hyphenation: string
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
string (countable and uncountable, plural strings)
- (countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- Synonyms: cord, rope, line; see also Thesaurus:string
- 1700, Matthew Prior, Carmen Seculare. for the Year 1700
- Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.
- (uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
- Synonyms: cord, rope, twine
- (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
- (music) A length of wire or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- (sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- (music) A length of wire or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- 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 string of islands
- (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- (countable) A series of items or events.
- Synonyms: sequence, series
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
- In 1933, disgusted and discouraged after a string of commercial failures, Clara quit the film business forever. She was twenty-six.
- (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) 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.
- (countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- (music, metonymically, countable) A stringed 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.
- Synonym: string section
- (figuratively, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- Synonyms: conditions, provisions
- (countable, physics) The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
- (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
- (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.
- (historical, billiards) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- (billiards, by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.
- (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.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- (archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
- (archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
- The string of his tongue was loosed.
- (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ure to this entry?)
- (architecture) A stringcourse.
- (dated, slang) A hoax; a fake story.
- Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
- 2006, Steve Niles, Jeff Mariotte, 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead (page 307)
- They were turning tricks, doing drugs, and generally little better off than they had been before, except that they were keeping more of their money. But they seemed lonely, too, without the company of their pimp and the rest of his string.
- 2006, Steve Niles, Jeff Mariotte, 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead (page 307)
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Descendants
- Portuguese: estrém
Translations
Verb
string (third-person singular simple present strings, present participle stringing, simple past strung or (obsolete or nonstandard) strang, past participle strung)
- (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
- (transitive) To put strings on (something).
- (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- (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.
Synonyms
- (put on a string): thread
- (put strings on): lace
Derived terms
- stringer
- stringified
- stringifier
- stringify
Related terms
- string along
- string up
- string out
Translations
Further reading
- string on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- String in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English string.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /str??/
- Hyphenation: string
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
string m (plural strings, diminutive stringetje n)
- (clothing) G-string, thong
- (computing) character string
Synonyms
- (character string): tekenreeks
- (G-string): reetveter
French
Etymology
From English string.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?i?/
Noun
string m (plural strings)
- G-string, thong, tanga
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English string.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /es?t???(i)/, /es?t???(i)/
Noun
string m (plural strings)
- (computing) string (sequence of consecutive text characters)
- Synonyms: cadeia, cadeia de caracteres
Swedish
Etymology
From English string.
Noun
string c
- G-string, thong
Derived terms
- stringkalsong
- stringtrosa
Anagrams
- ringts
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English string.
Noun
string
- string; cord
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array
English
Etymology
From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer (“to put in order”)), from Medieval Latin arr?d? (“to put in order, arrange, array”), from *r?dum (“preparation, order”), from Frankish *reida (“preparation, order”) or Gothic ???????????????????????????? (garaiþs, “ready, prepared”), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz (“ready”). Doublet of ready.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???e?/
- (US) IPA(key): /???e?/, /?æ.????/ (UK)
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
array (countable and uncountable, plural arrays)
- Clothing and ornamentation.
- A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
- An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- But the chivalry of France was represented by as gallant an array of nobles and cavaliers as ever fought under the banner of the lilies
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
- drawn up in battle array
- wedged together in the closest array
- A large collection.
- 1814, Lord Byron, The Corsair
- their long array of sapphire and of gold
- We offer a dazzling array of choices.
- 1814, Lord Byron, The Corsair
- (mathematics) Common name for matrix.
- (programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
- (law) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
- (military) A militia.
- A group of hedgehogs.
- A microarray.
Usage notes
- (any of various data structures): The exact usage of the term array, and of related terms, generally depends on the programming language. For example, many languages distinguish a fairly low-level "array" construct from a higher-level "list" or "vector" construct. Some languages distinguish between an "array" and a variety of "associative array"; others have only the latter concept, calling it an "array".
Antonyms
- (orderly series): disarray
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See also
- (any of various data structures): ones-based indexing, zero-based indexing
Verb
array (third-person singular simple present arrays, present participle arraying, simple past and past participle arrayed)
- To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
- To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
- (law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
Synonyms
- (to clothe and ornament): don, dress, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe or Thesaurus:decorate
Translations
Portuguese
Etymology
From English array.
Noun
array m (plural arrays)
- (programming) array (any of various data structures)
- Synonym: vetor
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