Word Finder - strung

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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.

In the Sandwich Islands the nuts are strung upon strips of wood and used as torches.

Yes, Howie is... high strung.

Again, many devices of civilization bear unmistakable marks of derivation from a lower source; thus the ancient Egyptian and Assyrian harps, which differ from ours in having no front pillar, appear certainly to owe this remarkable defect to having grown up through intermediate forms from the simple strung bow, the still used type of the most primitive stringed instrument.

He was her world, but she'd been nothing more than an afterthought, strung along with promises for years.

Gladys waddled downstairs, strung in more beads than the draped back room doorway of a Turkish dope den.

Computations are made with it by means of balls of bone or ivory runp ing on slender bamboo rods, similar to the simpler board, fitted up with beads strung on wires, which is employed in teaching the rudiments of arithmetic in English schools.

The mob strung their bows, and were about to shoot down the king and his suite.

Be sure to have the miniature lights strung around the trees.

High Strung and Drug Lord are especially powerful pieces.

Their gear was strung across three other beds, much to the doctor's irritation.

She pushed his crystal into the bottom of the container then strung Ashley's crystal onto the cord.

In 1902 the total length of wires strung was 28,125 m.; in 1906 it had been increased to 34,080 m.

Viewed from rising ground, the landscape presents a pleasing variety of cornfield and forest, while the horizon is broken by the bell-towers of the numerous villages strung along the banks of the streams.

Trolley haulage lacks the flexibility of steam or compressed air haulage, and is limited to main lines because the wires must be strung throughout the length of the line.

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.

The bow is then to be strung equally on each side to the upper portion of the shaft, and the little machine is completed.

Christmas tree lights can be strung along your railings or run along the ceiling.

They can be dried and placed on top of a cake or strung on a wire to run up and down the length of several tiers.

The links are created by elastic cord that the entire bracelet is strung on for easy removing.

Every character is used in almost exactly the same way, with long combos being strung by pressing the A and B buttons in a particular sequence.

Mucopolysaccharide-A complex molecule made of smaller sugar molecules strung together to form a chain.

One of the oldest manipulatives you're probably familiar with is the abacus, the ancient counting device in which beads strung on wires are used to represent single digits and groups of numbers.

Another alternative is to look for heart shaped beads or charms as these can look lovely when strung around a candle holder.

Alternatively, you can find smaller cordless candles that are strung together like traditional Christmas lights.

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.

He could have just dated and strung me along while he figured out his feelings... thanks.

He could have just dated you and strung you along while he figured out his feelings.

Josh salted that mine and strung along the owner just enough to get a salary out of him.

It's pretty tough trying to rent a room with a piece of yellow tape strung across it.

With very few exceptions only the name AP/AKHI (with various epithets) occurs on the coins of the Parthian kings, and the obverse generally shows the seated figure of the founder of the dynasty, holding in his hand a strung bow.

The next step is to remove the harvested crop to the drying-shed; primed leaves are placed at once in shallow baskets or boxes, and when under cover are strung on string or on wire and hung up on laths in the barn.

When the Parthian War (162-5) broke out, Polyaenus, too old to share in the campaign, dedicated to the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus a work, still extant, called Strategica or Strategemata, a historical collection of stratagems and maxims of strategy written in Greek and strung together in the form of anecdotes.

But owing to the thaw and the subsequent break-up of the miserable Korean roads, six weeks passed before the columns of the army (Guard, and and 12th divisions), strung out along the " Mandarin road " to a total depth of six days' march, closed upon the head at Wiju, the frontier town on the Yalu.

There are altogether 423 verses, gathered from various older sources, and strung together without any other internal connexion than that they relate more or less to the same subject.

They were ground as smooth as glass and were strung together by a hole drilled through the centre.

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.

This was the enthusiasm, this the vitalizing faith, which made the work of scholarship in the i 5th century so highly strung and ardent.

As the result his history has the appearance of being rather a series of brilliant pictures loosely strung together than a coherent narrative.

Again, the whole tone of the Testamentum is one of highly strung asceticism, and the regulations are such as point by their severity to a small and strictly organized body.

Though they are mainly dependent on the chase for food, their weapons are still the spear and the bow, the latter being made of wood and strung with bamboo.

Their national instrument, the gusle (gusla), is a single-stringed fiddle, often roughly fashioned of wood and ox-hide, the bow being strung with horsehair.

Toby's purple sweater, streaked with foul-smelling angel blood, was strung across a low branch.

This fabulous 1960s bangle is made from seven lemon yellow celluloid disks strung together.

At first glance two pieces of wood strung together by a length of cord, may not look too fearsome a weapon.

Pure, shining moments strung like tiny seed pearls between big red flares of defeat.

They sound muscular without being over-bearing, strung out without losing form.

We pass a washing line of black tee shirts strung across overgrown shrubbery.

They are easily controlled, not highly strung, aggressive or shy.

Creep of wood makes it important that longbows or violins are not left tightly strung.

Banyan trees strung trademark slogan expect stud tournament during.