String and Bind

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.

noun

• Something that hinders as if with bonds.

verb

• Stick to firmly.
  • usage: "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall"
  • synonyms: adhere, hold fast, bond, stick, stick to
• Create social or emotional ties.
  • usage: "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
  • synonyms: tie, attach, bond
• Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope.
  • usage: "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
• Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose.
  • synonyms: bandage
• Secure with or as if with ropes.
  • usage: "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"
  • synonyms: tie down, tie up, truss
• Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.
  • usage: "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
  • synonyms: oblige, hold, obligate
• Provide with a binding.
  • usage: "bind the books in leather"
• Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.
  • usage: "They tied their victim to the chair"
  • synonyms: tie
• Form a chemical bond with.
  • usage: "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
• Cause to be constipated.
  • usage: "These foods tend to constipate you"
  • synonyms: constipate

• (v.i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
• (v.t.) To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
• (v.t.) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
• (v.t.) To tie or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
• (v.i.) To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
• (n.) Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
• (v.t.) To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
• (v.t.) To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
• (n.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
• (v.t.) To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.
• (v.i.) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
• (n.) That which binds or ties.
• (n.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
• (v.i.) To be restrained from motion or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
• (v.t.) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; especially under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
• (v.t.) Fig.: To oblige, restrain or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.
• (v.t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
• (v.t.) To confine, restrain or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth or the streams.