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STRINGS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
Example:
the terms of the treaty were generous
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("strings" is a kind of...):
statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Holonyms ("strings" is a part of...):
agreement; understanding (the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments
Synonyms:
string section; strings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("strings" is a kind of...):
section (a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strings"):
violin section (the section of an orchestra that plays violins)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb string
Context examples:
She conducted me to her own chair, and then began to remove my shawl and untie my bonnet-strings; I begged she would not give herself so much trouble.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When it comes to love, fun and matters involving children, this could be a standout day for love to pull at your heart strings.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
We all felt a glad sense of relief when we saw the Professor calmly restoring the strings of putty to the edges of the door.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He notched the stick at each end and in the notches fastened strings of raw-hide.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more arrows; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased; and about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at work; when turning my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings would permit me, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it: from whence one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And he pointed to my work 'Yes,' they say to one another, these so kind ladies, 'he is a stupid old fellow, he will see not what we do, he will never observe that his sock heels go not in holes any more, he will think his buttons grow out new when they fall, and believe that strings make theirselves.'
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the orbits of distant bodies, perhaps even tilting the entire solar system to one side.
(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)
Strings of pedestrians, most of them so weary and dust-covered that it was evident that they had walked the thirty miles from London during the night, were plodding along by the sides of the road or trailing over the long mottled slopes of the moorland.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Hast a rare touch on the strings.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
'The reactions resulted mostly in strings that were closer to today's actual proteins and less in chains that included non-biological amino acids.
(Pre-life building blocks spontaneously align in evolutionary experiment, National Science Foundation)
