noun Download 🔗Share A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses. Examples : "The stable is a large string, housing many horses for the local riding school. " animal building agriculture essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner. Examples : "The jockey praised the owner for the string's impressive performance at the races. " sport animal essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers. Examples : "The legal string is holding a meeting to discuss the upcoming case. " law organization group essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together. Examples : "The local sumo string is holding tryouts next week. " sport organization essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp. Examples : "The police raided the apartment, arresting the pimp and breaking up the string of prostitutes. " sex society group human person organization business essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together. Examples : "The kite string was too short to fly the kite properly. " material structure essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Such a structure considered as a substance. Examples : "The string of pearls my grandmother gave me is a beautiful piece of jewelry. " material substance structure essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Any similar long, thin and flexible object. Examples : "a bowstring" material thing essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "a string of sausages" material thing essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A cohesive substance taking the form of a string. Examples : "The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive" material substance essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A series of items or events. Examples : "a string of successes" list item event essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc. Examples : "The coach announced that the first string players on the school basketball team would be starting in the championship game. " sport group essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc. Examples : "The tennis tournament had three strings of matches each day. " game sport essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable. Examples : "The racing stable owned a fine string of thoroughbreds. " animal sport race group essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity. Examples : "The computer program used a string of characters to identify the student's name. " computing technology language word essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A stringed instrument. Examples : "My grandfather plays the violin, a beautiful string. " music essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments. Examples : "The string section of the orchestra played beautifully during the concert. " music essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively. Examples : "no strings attached" law business condition essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics. Examples : "String theory is a complex idea, but the fundamental string is the core concept physicists study. " theory physics essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Cannabis or marijuana. Examples : "My friend's uncle sells string, but it's not the kind you use for tying things. " substance medicine essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Part of the 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. Examples : "The string in billiards determined who would shoot first. " sport game essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept. Examples : "The string of buttons used to keep track of the points in the school's spelling bee competition was almost worn out. " game sport essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (by extension) The points made in a game of billiards. Examples : "The string in the game of billiards was challenging, requiring several precise shots. " sport game essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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; also called the string line. Examples : "The pool player aimed for the string line to get the cue ball back into play. " sport game essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. Examples : "The bookbinder carefully applied the string to the book's covers to keep them closed. " material stationery essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root. Examples : "The botanist carefully examined the tiny string of roots clinging to the rock. " plant biology essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A nerve or tendon of an animal body. Examples : "The injured athlete had to have surgery to repair the damaged string in his ankle. " anatomy animal body essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. Examples : "The ship's carpenter carefully measured the string, ensuring it was the correct length for bolting to the sheer strake. " nautical part building essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants. Examples : "the strings of beans" plant vegetable essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. Examples : "The miner noticed a thin string of copper running through the rock face. " geology material essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A stringcourse. Examples : "The old stone building had a decorative stringcourse running horizontally across the façade. " architecture building essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A hoax; a fake story. Examples : "The rumor about the surprise party was just a string. " story media communication essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To put (items) on a string. Examples : "You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace." item action essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To put strings on (something). Examples : "It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly." material action essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. Examples : "The children strung colorful beads together to make a necklace. " material process action essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game. Examples : "The students strung the ping-pong ball to decide who would serve first in their game. " sport game essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species. Examples : "The student was accused of stringing the class about a rare bird, claiming to have seen a Snowy Owl when it was actually just a snowy-feathered barn owl. " bird environment nature action language sport word communication essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading