to string
36
3.8
- verb
- /strɪŋ/
- Documenting their shared convictions on this score, Tarabukin strings together numerous quotations from Spengler's Pessimism.
- string together
- string beads
- string pearls
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Watch on YouTubeAnd she said, I'm pretty sure happiness is stringing as many of those days in a row as you possibly can.
- And she said, I'm pretty sure happiness is stringing as many of those days in a row as you possibly can.
- So you do, you string a number of those together, you're in the black and you know, so it's like just a model that I've created for myself.
- You, if you do those small things, you look back and you go, man, I've come pretty far even in a short time because I've strung those little things together.
- You know, they're, they're trying to string together cliches rather than they don't have that fire in them to tell a unique story.
- I, I, I have to sort of string words together one at a time.
Examples
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Come on, Glen, you can't keep stringing us along.
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You, if you do those small things, you look back and you go, man, I've come pretty far even in a short time because I've strung those little things together.
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We can string them along for a couple of weeks and in that time, get them interested in a new project.
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Her words come out slowly, as though she is carefully stringing them on a thread.
Fiction book (1990) -
We must hasten, for we will be two days stringing net to arrow and setting all in place.
Fiction book (1993) -
The only light came from the naked bulbs strung along the structural beams.
Fiction book (1990) -
The lesson culminated when the individual notated sounds were strung together to create a class Listening Walk composition.
Academic text (2011) -
Ellie: If you didn't like me anymore, you shouldn't have strung me along with those letters.
Fiction book (1991) -
The streetcar was made of the interiors of matchboxes, strung together somehow by wire.
Academic text (2009) -
Can you help me string the beads onto the necklace for the craft project?
Synonyms
22
3.0
To pass a thin string through a small hole or eye
8
4.0
To join separate things or events so they become one connected thing
5
8.1
Put beads or small objects onto a string
1
5.5
To arrange events and ideas one after another
1
4.2
To place things in a line along a path
Idioms
- Informal
Say this when you cannot give a clear answer because it depends on things you do not know
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
17
7.5
Make someone believe a false promise for a long time to get an advantage
1
3.9
Gently pull and release a string on an instrument like a guitar or harp to make a sound
Compounds
- Specialized
63
8.8
An idea that tiny vibrating strings make different particles and forces
- Specialized
2
9.9
An idea in physics about a very thin, long object in space that has a lot of energy
- Informal
2
6.8
Being too dependent on your parents, especially your mother, so you are not independent
1
3.5
A group of musicians in an orchestra who play instruments like violins and cellos
- US
1
3.7
A very large low instrument with a deep sound used in orchestras and jazz bands
- Specialized
1
6.1
A stitch that goes around an opening and pulls the edges together to close it
- Specialized
An early form of string theory that describes only bosons, a type of particle, and needs 26 dimensions
- Specialized
An operation that sews the lower part of the womb closed during pregnancy to prevent early birth
- Jargon
An invisible or marked line on a pool table behind which cue balls are placed at game start
- Archaic
A group of four players, two violins, a viola, and a cello, or a piece written for them
A group of words written or spoken in a particular order that may not be a full sentence
How Connected
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb string also means to thread objects like beads; it comes from the same old word for 'cord', so to string beads is to put them onto a cord or line.