Stringer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that strings: a stringer of beads.
  • n. Architecture A long heavy horizontal timber used as a support or connector.
  • n. Architecture A stringboard.
  • n. A horizontal timber used to support upright posts.
  • n. Sports A member of a specified string or squad on a team. Often used in combination: a first-stringer; a second-stringer.
  • n. A part-time or freelance correspondent for the news media.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
  • n. Someone who leads someone along.
  • n. A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel
  • n. A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
  • n. Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
  • n. A hard-hit ball.
  • n. A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
  • n. A libertine; a wencher.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
  • n. A libertine; a wencher.
  • n. A longitudinal sleeper.
  • n. A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
  • n. A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
  • n. A reporter or correspondent who works for a news agency on a part-time basis, especially one covering local news for a newspaper published in a different area; -- called also string correspondent.
  • n. a longitudinal supporting structure to reinforce the skin of an airplane fuselage.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who strings.
  • n. A device for attaching piano-strings to a ridge cast specially for that purpose on the plate, instead of winding them around tuning wrest-pins inserted in the wrest-pin plank.
  • n. In railway engin., a longitudinal timber on which a rail is fastened, and which rests on transverse sleepers.
  • n. In ship-building, an inside strake of plank or of plates, secured to the ribs and supporting the ends of the beams; a shelf. See cut under beam, 2 .
  • n. In carpentry: A horizontal timber connecting two posts in a framework.
  • n. Same as string-board.
  • n. A tie in a truss or a truss-bridge.
  • n. A fornicator; a wencher.
  • n. A small stick or switch used to string fish on by the gills.
  • n. In iron ship-building, a longitudinal member built of plates and bars in the interior of a vessel which reinforces and supports the framing above the turn of the bilge. Similar members below the turn of the bilge are called keelsons. See keelson, 2.
  • n. In geology, a narrow vein or dike.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a worker who strings
  • n. a member of a squad on a team
  • n. brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull
  • n. a long horizontal timber to connect uprights
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    worker    player    participant    brace    bracing   
    Variant
    string correspondent   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    libertine    wencher   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Inger    Singer    Stinger    binger    clinger   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    flangeway    girder    ________________________________________________________________________________    joist    crossbeam   
     
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