String
Same as: stringcoursenoun
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- (narrow cord, a strip of tough fiber on a bean, etc., something ranked as one's first or second, etc., resource, a condition that is insisted upon, a length of things on a string, a fiber of a plant, a condition attached to a plan) ខ្សែឆ្មារ, សរសៃ (សសៃសាច់ដុំ, សរសៃឈើ, សរសៃកប្បាសជាដើម), ខ្សែលួសឆ្មារ cotton string ខ្សែ, string of beads ខ្សែ, ត្រណោត, string of fish ត្រណោត, string of cars អ្វីៗដែលបន្ដគ្នារដឹក, guitar string ខ្សែ (គ្រឿងភ្លេង)
verb — past tense: Strung ; past participle: Strung ; present participle: Stringing ; 3rd person singular present Strings
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (To stretch out in a line. -pull strings to gain or try to gain one's objective by means of influential friends, associates, etc. -string along to go along in agreement, to cheat, to deceive) ឡើងសរសៃ (ដូចស្ករតាំងម៉ែទាញអោយវែងឡើង)
Example: The up a parcel with string, a string of beads. - 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to provide with strings, to thread on a string, to tie, to adjust or tune, to remove the strings from [beans]) ចងដោយខ្សែ, វេញខ្សែចងនឹងខ្សែ, string beads ដោត, string a violin ដាក់ខ្សែ, string a wire សន្ធឹង (ខ្សែ), string beans យកសរសៃចេញ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
- 2.
- A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
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- 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; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
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- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
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- The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
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- The line or cord of a bow.
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- A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
- 8.
- An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- 9.
- The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
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- A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- 11.
- The points made in a game.
- 12.
- In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
- 13.
- In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
- 14.
- The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; -- called also string line.
- 15.
- Act of stringing for break.
- 16.
- A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
verb — past tense: Strung ; past participle: Strung ; present participle: Stringing ; 3rd person singular present Strings
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To hoax; josh; jolly.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
- 5.
- (TRANSITIVE) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
- 6.
- (TRANSITIVE) To make tense; to strengthen.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans.