Word Finder - stringing

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To put (items) on a string.

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You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.

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To put strings on (something).

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It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.

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To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.

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To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.

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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.

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The act by which something is strung.

Oh, you were stringing me along.

With each tip we give there's further chance someone will start stringing them together.

Finally I remembered the kindergarten beads, and set her to work stringing them.

When selecting beads, look for uniformity in the finishing and the ease of stringing them together as the main factors in your purchase.

Instead of stringing lights behind the head table, consider hanging scones or wire candle arrangement.

Rather than using garlands of summer or wintery greens, find fall garlands suitable for stringing across balconies, candelabras, banisters and altar rails.

If wiring is not allowed, consider stringing rope lighting around the space to provide ambient lighting without changing any structural elements.

Stringing a classical guitar is quite a bit different from stinging a standard acoustic or electric model.

Classical Guitar Sheet Music is a website that offers a wealth of information, including a detailed tutorial on stringing classical guitars.

The University of Hawaii, Leeward offers a fine and innovative tutorial on stringing a classical guitar.

Stringing a classical guitar with steel strings will almost certainly cause irreparable damage to the instrument.

Stringing an acoustic guitar can be difficult to understand if you are not familiar with the process.

If you have switched over from an electric guitar, stringing an acoustic guitar can be especially confusing.

Be careful when tuning them or your stringing efforts will be lost.

Stringing an acoustic guitar can be simple once you've got the steps down.

Are you more interested in getting help with tuning and stringing your guitar, or would you like to learn more advanced techniques like using a capo?

For example, gem stones are grade B or C instead of the more expensive grade A and stringing material is plated instead of real gold.

A quick trip through the craft store and you will see a variety of settings and mediums for stringing the beads.

To do this, you must weave together several colored marbles, stringing them together in such a way to clear each of the numerous stages.

Combo moves could be executed by stringing together light attacks (which stunned an opponent only momentarily) that gave time to pull off more complex and damaging moves.

Their first words usually are spoken at about one year of age, and they begin stringing two words together at about age two.

Decorate the candles by stringing beads onto wire and wrapping the wire around the base of the candle.

Stringing the tree with popcorn and opening the Advent calendar are terrific holiday traditions, but sometimes, having an assortment of creative adult Christmas games to play makes grown-up gatherings more festive.

Pre-lit trees are now extremely popular both to save the time and hassle of stringing your own Christmas tree and because high-quality pre-lit Christmas trees are professionally strung to minimize dangling wires.

Children have been stringing popcorn and cranberries to create festive holiday garlands for generations.

Try varying this traditional craft by drying thin slices of apples in the oven and stringing them on twine.

You could create tassels by stringing beads on cord or leather, and attach this to your backpack.

Start by stringing a necklace made of beads that are all the same, such as seed beads of the same color.

Just make sure you make some extra popcorn so you can eat while you're stringing!

You can find everything from amethyst to zebra jasper, but keep in mind that they can be rather heavy and will require a strong bead wire for stringing.

In comparison, jewelry making requires often requires beads, stringing materials, clasps, pliers, and a variety of other tools that can be rather costly.

Where there is water, there is fun, and tossing a few beach balls into the water or stringing a volley ball net across the shallow end of the pool will give your guests some more options as well.

You can also create garlands by stringing groups of stars or pompoms together.

Hold a piñata over the pool by either attaching it to a long pole (the pole that attaches to the pool vacuum works great) or stringing it up over the pool.

Try stringing colored mittens with clothes pegs and hanging them around the room.

The Brisa formula is comprised of keratin-bonding reinforced UV gel that brushes on without stringing and is ideal as an overlay on natural nails or tips.

One thing was sure, now Justin was convinced she was stringing him along.

The tsien is a round disk of copper alloy, with a square hole punched through the centre for stringing.

He received a scanty education; worked as a carpenter in Syracuse and as a machinist in Ithaca; became interested (about 2842) in the development of the electric telegraph; and after unsuccessful or over-expensive attempts to ground the telegraph wires in 1844 solved the difficulty by stringing them on poles.

They were seen stringing up motion sensors earlier.

Build a Gamebreaker by stringing together combos, and then get your teammates involved in a three-man aerial dunk assault.

The soundwell, keywell, and jackrail have a lighter ash herringbone stringing only 5mm wide.

The case, lid, keywell, soundwell and jackrail are all veneered in plain walnut with ash herringbone stringing.

He stoically directed stringing and knotting from his crow's nest - and withstood the storm of advice and chatter from below.

The outside of the case is decorated with fielded panels of mahogany veneer surrounded with narrow parquetry stringing and walnut bands.

Unless you have extensive experience at stringing beads or are simply a 'natural' at the craft, you will do well to buy some pattern books.

They have gemstones drilled all the way through for stringing as well as beads drilled only halfway through, perfect for making stud earrings.

Her father looks in at us morning and evening as he goes to and from his office, and sees her contentedly stringing her beads or making horizontal lines on her sewing-card, and exclaims, "How quiet she is!"

A day or two afterward I was stringing beads of different sizes in symmetrical groups--two large beads, three small ones, and so on.

Miss Sullivan tried to teach me to count by stringing beads in groups, and by arranging kintergarten straws I learned to add and subtract.