Span and String

span

noun

The complete duration of something.
- usage: "the job was finished in the span of an hour"
The distance or interval between two points.
Two items of the same kind.
- synonyms: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad
A unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches. )
A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc..
- synonyms: bridge
The act of sitting or standing astride.
- synonyms: straddle

verb

To cover or extend over an area or time period.
- usage: "Rivers traverse the valley floor, "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
- synonyms: cross, traverse, sweep

(v.t.) Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
(v.t.) The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge or the like, between its supports.
(v.t.) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
(v.t.) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.
(v.t.) To reach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as an arch.
(v.t.) The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
imp. & p. p. of Spin.
(v.t.) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
(v.t.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
(v.i.) To be matched, as horses.
(imp.) of Spin.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

To cover all contingencies within a specified range.

string

noun

A lightweight cord.
- synonyms: twine
Stringed instruments that are played with a bow.
- usage: "the strings played superlatively well"
- synonyms: bowed stringed instrument
A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed.
A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding.
- usage: "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought"
- synonyms: train
A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases. )
A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening.
- usage: "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag"
- synonyms: drawstring, drawing string
A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod. )
Cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop.
- synonyms: cosmic string
A collection of objects threaded on a single strand.
A necklace made by a stringing objects together.
- usage: "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
- synonyms: chain, strand

verb

Thread on or as if on a string.
- usage: "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"
- synonyms: thread, draw
Add as if on a string.
- usage: "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
- synonyms: string up
Move or come along.
- synonyms: string along
Stretch out or arrange like a string.
String together; tie or fasten with a string.
- usage: "string the package"
Remove the stringy parts of.
- usage: "string beans"
Provide with strings.
- usage: "string my guitar"

(n.) A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
(n.) Act of stringing for break.
(n.) 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.
(n.) In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
(v.t.) To hoax; josh; jolly.
(v.i.) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched or people who are moving along, etc.
(n.) In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
(n.) The line or cord of a bow.
(n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
(v.t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
(n.) The points made in a game.
(n.) 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.
(v.t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
(n.) Same as Stringcourse.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
(n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
(v.t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
(v.t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(v.t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
(n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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