strings

/stɹɪŋz/ · noun

Meaning

A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
(metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
Such a structure considered as a substance.
Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
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.
A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
A series of items or events.
To put (items) on a string.
To put strings on (something).
To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
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.
Collectively, the stringed instruments in an orchestra.
Conditions, especially undesirable ones.

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