n. A slender cord; a thick thread; a line; a twine; a narrow band, thong, or ribbon; also, anything which ties.n. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.n. The line or cord of a bow.n. In musical instruments, a tightly stretched cord or wire by the vibration of which tones are produced.n. plural Stringed instruments, especially the stringed instruments of a band or orchestra taken collectively—that is, violins, violas, violoncellos, and double basses—in distinction from the wind and the percussives.n. Something resembling a string.n. In mining, a thin seam or branch of a lode; a small vein; a fissure filled with mineral or metalliferous matter, but wanting in regularity and permanence.n. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.n. A cord or thread on which anything is filed; a file; also, a set of things strung on a string or file: as, a string of beads; hence, any series of persons or things connected or following in succession; a series or succession of persons, animals, or things extending in a line.n. A drove or company of horses or steers; a stud.n. In billiards: A number of wooden buttons strung on a wire to keep the score or tally of the game.n. The score, tally, or number of points scored by either player or side at any stage of a game: as, he made a poor string at first, but won.n. A stroke made by each player from the head of the table to the opposite cushion and back, to determine, by means of the resultant positions of the balls, who shall open the game.n. In architecture, a string-course.n. In ship-building, the highest range of planks in a ship's ceiling, or that between the gunwale and the upper edge of the upper-deck ports.n. In printing, a piece-compositor's aggregate of the proofs of types set by him, pasted on a long strip of paper. The amount of work done is determined by the measurement of this string.n. The stringy albumen of an egg. See chalaza.n. A hoax, or discredited story.To furnish with strings.To put in tune the strings of, as of a stringed instrument.To make tense; impart vigor to; tone. See high-strung.To fasten, suspend, or hang with a string: as, to string a parcel; to string up a dog.To thread or file on a string: as, to string beads.To prepare for use, as a bow, by bending it sufficiently to slip the bowstring into its notches, so that the string is tightly strained.To extend in a string, series, or line.To deprive of strings; strip the strings from: as, to string beans.To carve (lampreys).To stretch out into a string or strings when pulled; become stringy.To walk or move along in a string or disconnected line; straggle: as, they came stringing along.In billiards, to hit one's ball so that it will go the length of the table and back, to determine who shall open the game.n. A defect sometimes observable in articles of glass, arising from a small bit of solid glass which has fallen into the melting-pot, or been taken up at the end of the blowpipe, and failed to fuse and become uniformly mixed with the rest of the material, so that a slender ridge is formed on the surface of the blown article.n. In stair-building, same as string-piece.To fool or deceive.