STRINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strings mean? 

• STRINGS (noun)
  The noun STRINGS has 2 senses:

1. the section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments

2. (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement

  Familiarity information: STRINGS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

string section; strings

Hypernyms ("strings" is a kind of...):

section (a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strings"):

violin section (the section of an orchestra that plays violins)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

condition; strings; term

Context example:

the terms of the treaty were generous

Hypernyms ("strings" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Holonyms ("strings" is a part of...):

agreement; understanding (the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises)

 Context examples 

When they came within the influence of Sotherton associations, it was better for Miss Bertram, who might be said to have two strings to her bow.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“My strings are as limp as a cow's tail this morning.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'The reactions resulted mostly in strings that were closer to today's actual proteins and less in chains that included non-biological amino acids.

(Pre-life building blocks spontaneously align in evolutionary experiment, National Science Foundation)

The Scarecrow and the Woodman now began to fasten the mice to the truck, using the strings they had brought.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

In the Metathesaurus, therefore, an English "term" is the group of all strings that are lexical variants of each other.

(Lexical Group Unique Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

There are no strings on it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My aunt tied the strings of her bonnet (she had come down to breakfast in it), and put on her shawl, as if she were ready for anything that was resolute and uncompromising.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Secondary crater chains, the most common of the linear features, are long strings of circular depressions created by fragments thrown out of large impact craters as they formed on Ceres.

(Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution, NASA)

The representation of symbols in a source alphabet by strings of binary digits.

(Binary Encoding, NCI Thesaurus)

Everybody acknowledged Buck a magnificent animal, but twenty fifty-pound sacks of flour bulked too large in their eyes for them to loosen their pouch-strings.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)