🎻 With strings 🧵 To thread

to stringed

3.4

To thread beads or lights onto a cord

verb
/strɪŋd/

: ensartó

He carefully stringed the lights around the tree for the holiday decoration.

So I bought those, took them back, took the mimira's back in the room, repaired it, strung it up.

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Examples

The musician stringed the beads together to create a colorful necklace.
After the lesson, she stringed the notes for the song onto the sheet.
A lifetime is comprised of days strung together into weeks, months and years.

Evan Carmichael
A lifetime is comprised of days strung together into weeks, months and years.

Evan Carmichael
And they sort of strung her life together on a chronological vector.

Harvard University

Synonyms

to string

vsto stringed

35 1.9

To tie things together with a thin cord

is the past form emphasizing the result of that tying action

strung

vsto stringed

7 3.5

People put beads or flags on a string

is the past participle form used to describe that same state

to string up

vsto stringed

4 5.5

To hang things for decoration or display

is a general past form for attaching, not only decorative hanging

Compounds

stringed instrument

Specialized

4 2.9

A musical instrument that makes sound when its strings are played, like a guitar or violin

bowed stringed instrument

5.7

A string instrument played with a bow, like a violin

Surface Forms

stringed past

string infinitive

stringed past participle

stringing present participle

strings third person singular

Morphology

stringed = string (transparent) = string + ed

Regular past/past-participle formation from the verb 'string' by adding -ed; meaning is directly derivable (though the irregular past 'strung' is also used).

Etymology

The word stringed is the past form of the verb string, which means 'to thread or attach on a cord', as when you string pearls, lights, or a tennis racket. So when something was stringed, it had a string put on it or was fitted with strings.