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Substantiivit

1. (countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
2. (uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
3. (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
4. 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.
5. (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
6. (countable) A series of items or events.
7. (countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
8. (music, countable) A stringed instrument.
9. (music, usually in plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
10. (in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively. (compare no strings attached)
11. (countable, physics) the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics
12. (slang) cannabis or marijuana
13. A miniature game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
14. The points made in a game of billiards.
15. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
16. A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
17. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
18. (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
19. (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
20. (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
21. (architecture) A stringcourse.

Verbit

1. (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
2. (transitive) To put strings on (something).