Word Finder - strings

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A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.

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There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.

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(metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.

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A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.

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An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.

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A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.

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A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

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Such a structure considered as a substance.

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Any similar long, thin and flexible object.

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a bowstring

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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.

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a string of sausages

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A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.

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The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive

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A series of items or events.

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a string of successes

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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.

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In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.

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A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.

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An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.

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A stringed instrument.

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(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.

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(in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.

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no strings attached

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The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.

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Cannabis or marijuana.

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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.

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The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.

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(by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.

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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.

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A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

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A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.

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A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

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An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

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The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.

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the strings of beans

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A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

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A stringcourse.

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A hoax; a fake story.

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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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Collectively, the stringed instruments in an orchestra.

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Conditions, especially undesirable ones.

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It looks like a good offer, but there are strings attached.

Anisya, go and see if the strings of my guitar are all right.

In this way the Italians lost their military vigour, and wars were waged by despots from their cabinets, who pulled the strings of puppet captains in their pay.

She amused herself with the beads until dinner-time, bringing the strings to me now and then for my approval.

He was amazingly good, his fingers plucking the strings with quick nimble strokes.

There are strings attached to anyone raised from the dead-dead, but these are of no concern to a deity like they might be to a little human like you.

The complainer entirely overlooks the fact that this is the kind of music in which such a phrase will certainly be heard again before we have time to forget it; and as a matter of fact the strings promptly repeat it fortissimo in a position which nothing can overpower.

Magnificent examples are Mozart's trio for pianoforte, clarinet and viola, his quintet for pianoforte, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (imitated by Beethoven), his quintet for clarinet and strings, Brahms's clarinet-quintet for the same combination, and his trio for pianoforte, violin and horn.

But, when Pompey himself arrived at Damascus, Antipater, who pulled the strings and exploited the claims of Hyrcanus, realized that Rome and not the Arabs, who were cowed by the threats of Scaurus, was the ruler of the East.

The eggs are large and yellow, and produced in two rosary-like strings, as if strung together by elastic filaments continuous with the gelatinous capsules.

This covers the breast and shoulder; it has half sleeves, is very short, and is fastened at the back with strings.

From that time the Abbasids began their machinations against the Omayyads in the name of the family of the Prophet, avoiding all that could cause suspicion to the Shiites, but holding the strings firmly in their own hands.

The coins chiefly in use were (i) copper cash, which were strung in hundreds on strings of straw, and, as about 911 weight was equal to one shilling, were excessively cumbrous, but were nevertheless valued at their face value; (ii) nickel coins, which, being profitable to mint, were issued in enormous quantities, quickly depreciated, and were moreover extensively forged.

In many of the Ecaudata, and in a few of the Caudata and Apoda, the eggs are laid in strings or bands which are twined round aquatic plants or carried by the parent; whilst in other Ecaudata they form large masses which either float on the surface of the water or sink to the bottom.

In spite of his love of music, no pocket recorder filled Dean's head with voices, strings or horns through tiny toy earphones— he'd leave that to the bikers who pedaled unaware of the sounds of birds and springtime around them.

It was conjectured that this number is normal, meaning that it contains all finite bit strings.

Beware of waxed strings made of candlewick - unless you like your director to wax eloquent while shedding little light.

Their second song, "Out in the Woods," is unbearably poignant with aching cello and strange, pained Eastern European strings.

The value must be one of the strings in the table, or a unique abbreviation of one of the strings.

We do this with the ampersand symbol (& ). The ampersand symbol (& ). The ampersand is used to join strings together.

These lengths can be used to declare character arrays to store such strings.

Glockenspiel, strings, reeds, world percussion and programming combine to create classy, intelligent, frail and melancholy pieces.

Tom can not cleave with apron strings still attached... ... ... ... ... ... ... .

Tweaking the EQ to enhance either bass or treble strings and adding either room ambiance or subtle echoes to each side of the track.

You can enter a passphrase or manually enter the required hex strings.

Dreamy sounds combining ethereal, cinematic cadences with charming pop sensibilities and strings.

But, let's not let sporting excellence obscure the many other strings to the Hampton bow.

Piano and strings add heft, but none of it comes off as overblown or pompous.

Dimmler had finished the piece but still sat softly running his fingers over the strings, evidently uncertain whether to stop or to play something else.

Cade shook his head and with a quick move, untied her apron strings.

When they questioned Jake Weller about the source of the high-level endorsement, he hinted Lydia Larkin knew someone in the system who'd pulled strings.

He became a staunch Conservative, and, apart from his embassy to the emperor in 1524-1543, was mainly occupied during the last years of Henry's reign in brandishing the "whip with six strings."

When the sieve-tube has ceased to function and the protoplasm, slime strings, and callose have disappeared, the perforations through which the slime strings passed are left as relatively large holes, easily visible in some cases with low powers of the microscope, piercing the sieve.plate.

On this account it is often exported in strings or " scrap " and, not usually in biscuits or balls.

The latex, which exudes slowly and in many tortuous courses, some of it ultimately falling on the ground, is allowed to remain on the tree for several days, until it becomes dry and solid, when it is pulled off in strings, which are either rolled up into balls or put into bags in loose masses, in which form it enters commerce under the name of Ceara " scrap."

By considering only the particles of air found in a right line, he reduced the problem of the propagation of sound to the solution of the same partial differential equations that include the motions of vibrating strings, and demonstrated the insufficiency of the methods employed by both his great contemporaries in dealing with the latter subject.

If the tin is pure it splits into a mass of granular strings.

He evaded the clause in the constitution prohibiting the election of a president for successive terms of office by invariably arranging for the nomination of some adherent of his own as chief of the executive, and then pulling the strings behind this figurehead.

As a verb, the word means to stifle or check; hence damped vibrations or oscillations are those which have been reduced or stopped, instead of being allowed to die out naturally; the "dampers" of the piano are small pieces of feltcovered wood which fall upon the strings and stop their vibrations as the keys are allowed to rise; and the "damper" of a chimney or flue, by restricting the draught, lessens the rate of combustion.

Let two such masses of matter be suspended by strings from the same point, and then let one mass be drawn aside, pendulum-wise,.

The experiment is usually performed, in a more striking manner, with a bell-jar and a number of small light wooden balls suspended by silk strings to a fixed frame above the jar, so as to be just in contact with the widest part of the glass.

It is evident that for exact diatonic scales for even a limited number of key-notes, key-board instruments would have to be provided with a great number of separate strings or pipes, and the corresponding keys would be required.

Lastly, by using different strings, it may be shown that, with the same T and 1, (i/m).

But we have to remember that with strings, pipes and instruments generally the fundamental tone is accompanied by overtones, called also " upper partials," and beating within the dissonance range may occur between these overtones.

The triangle is here an irregular one, consisting of a narrow base to which one end of the string was fixed, while the second side, forming a slightly obtuse angle with the base, consisted of a wide and slightly curved sound-board pierced with holes through which the other end of the strings passed, being either knotted or wound round pegs.

A small harp of this kind having 20 strings was discovered at Thebes in 1823.

But rapidly it became obvious that the provinces united had become too important to be held in leading strings.

There are extant similar orations by Ausonius, six or seven strings, one played by a Moor; both have the tailpiece in the form of a crescent.

After the roots are formed, the strings are cut through, and the runners become independent plants.

The eggs may be laid separately invested by a chitinous envelope, or as in Ischnochiton magdalenensis they may form strings containing nearly 200,000 eggs, or the ova may be retained in the pallial groove and undergo development there, as in Chiton polii and Hemiarthrum setulosum.

Another method largely used is the shallow basket or bucket suspended to strings between two men, who thus bail up the water.