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📖 Определения и значения для слова string

📒 long, thin material used for tying things together, made of several threads that have been twisted together; a piece of string used to fasten or pull something or keep something in place

  • a piece/length/ball of string
  • He wrapped the package in brown paper and tied it with string.
  • The key is hanging on a string by the door.

📒 a set or series of things that are joined together, for example on a string

  • a string of pearls
  • The molecules join together to form long strings.

📒 a series of things or people that come closely one after another

  • The band had a string of hits in the nineties.
  • He owns a string of racing stables.
  • There's been a whole string of accidents at that corner.

📒 a series of characters (= letters, numbers, etc.)

  • to key in/enter a search string

📒 a tightly stretched piece of wire, nylon, or catgut on a musical instrument, that produces a musical note when the instrument is played

  • Play it on the G string.

📒 the group of musical instruments in an orchestra that have strings, for example violins; the people who play them

  • The opening theme is taken up by the strings.

📒 any of the tightly stretched pieces of nylon or natural gut in a racket, used for hitting balls in tennis and some other sports

📒 special conditions or limits

  • Major loans like these always come with strings.
  • It's a business proposition, pure and simple. No strings attached.

📒 (too much under) the influence and control of somebody

  • The British prime minister is too apt to cling to Washington's apron strings.

📒 to have more than one skill or plan that you can use if you need to

  • The exhibition shows that he has other strings to his artistic bow.

📒 used to say that there is no definite answer to a question

  • ‘How long will it take?’ ‘How long's a piece of string?’

📒 to use your influence in order to get an advantage for somebody

📒 to control events or the actions of other people

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