to string
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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
21
4.0
To join separate things or events so they become one connected thing
19
3.0
To pass a thin string through a small hole or eye
4
5.5
To arrange events and ideas one after another
2
4.2
To place things in a line along a path
1
8.1
Put beads or small objects onto a string
Idioms
- Informal
1
9.8
Say this when you cannot give a clear answer because it depends on things you do not know
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
20
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
46
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
2
3.5
A group of musicians in an orchestra who play instruments like violins and cellos
- Informal
2
6.8
Being too dependent on your parents, especially your mother, so you are not independent
2
3.7
A group of words written or spoken in a particular order that may not be a full sentence
- 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
1
9.9
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
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.