STRUNG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strung mean? 

• STRUNG (adjective)
  The adjective STRUNG has 1 sense:

1. that is on a string

  Familiarity information: STRUNG used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRUNG (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That is on a string

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

keys strung on a red cord

Participle:

string (thread on or as if on a string)

 Context examples 

I really believe that a finely-organized, high-strung man would suffer twice and thrice as much as they from a like injury.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A double band of white shells were strung round the centre of it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus, Jimmy and his gang, strung out on the long, lower steps, met the attacking gang.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

DNA and RNA are polymers comprised of many nucleotides, strung together like beads in a necklace.

(Nucleotide, NCI Dictionary)

By the black rood! it is a good piece of yew, well nocked, well strung, well waxed, and very joyful to the feel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A few minutes later the remainder of the tribe, strung out as it was on the march, trailed in.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If you can conceive me as a thin and colourless cord upon which my would-be pearls are strung, you will be accepting me upon the terms which I should wish.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had had no food for many hours, and were very weary with the stony and irregular journey, but our nerves were too strung to allow us to halt.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hyde in danger of his life was a creature new to me; shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

On these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly, like the scraps of paper fastened by school boys at the end of the string that holds their kite.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)