n. 线, 细绳, 一串, 字符串

vt. 串起, 成串, 收紧, 缚, 扎

vi. 成一串

[计] 字符串, 串

String \String\ (str[i^]ng), n. [OE. string, streng, AS. streng;
akin to D. streng, G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. str["a]ng,
Dan. str[ae]ng; probably from the adj., E. strong (see
{Strong}); or perhaps originally meaning, twisted, and akin
to E. strangle.]
1. 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. --Shak.

Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.
--Prior.

2. 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. ``A string of
islands.'' --Gibbon.

3. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are
held together. --Milton.

4. 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. ``An instrument of ten
strings.'' --Ps. xxx. iii. 2.

Me softer airs befit, and softer strings
Of lute, or viol still. --Milton.

5. The line or cord of a bow. --Ps. xi. 2.

He twangs the grieving string. --Pope.

6. A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.

Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the
water, from the bottom. --Bacon.

7. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

The string of his tongue was loosed. --Mark vii.
35.

8. (Shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks,
corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and
bolted to it.

9. (Bot.) 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.

10. (Mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic
vein. --Ure.

11. (Arch.) Same as {Stringcourse}.

12. (Billiards) The points made in a game.

13.
(a) In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes,
as in American billiard games, marked by buttons
threaded on a string or wire.
(b) In various games, competitions, etc., a certain
number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

14. (Billiards & Pool)
(a) 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}.
(b) Act of stringing for break.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

15. A hoax; a trumped-up or ``fake'' story. [Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

16. a sequence of similar objects or events sufficiently
close in time or space to be perceived as a group; a
string of accidents; a string of restaurants on a
highway.
[PJC]

17. (Physics) A one-dimensional string-like mathematical
object used as a means of representing the properties of
fundamental particles in {string theory}, one theory of
particle physics; such hypothetical objects are
one-dimensional and very small (10^{-33} cm) but exist in
more than four spatial dimensions, and have various modes
of vibration. Considering particles as strings avoids
some of the problems of treating particles as points, and
allows a unified treatment of gravity along with the
other three forces (electromagnetism, the weak force, and
the strong force) in a manner consistent with quantum
mechanics. See also {string theory}.
[PJC]

{String band} (Mus.), a band of musicians using only, or
chiefly, stringed instruments.

{String beans}.
(a) A dish prepared from the unripe pods of several kinds
of beans; -- so called because the strings are
stripped off.
(b) Any kind of beans in which the pods are used for
cooking before the seeds are ripe; usually, the low
bush bean.

{To have two strings to one's bow}, to have a means or
expedient in reserve in case the one employed fails.


String \String\, v. i.
To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is
stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]


String \String\ (str[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. {Strung} (str[u^]ng);
p. p. {Strung} (R. {Stringed} (str[i^]ngd)); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stringing}.]
1. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.

Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet
With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street?
--Gay.

2. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument,
in order to play upon it.

For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung,
That not a mountain rears its head unsung.
--Addison.

3. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.

4. To make tense; to strengthen.

Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.
--Dryden.

5. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to
string beans. See {String}, n., 9.

6. To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung
him along all day until he realized we were kidding.
[Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]