String and Hook

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

• A catch for locking a door.
• A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook.
  • synonyms: crotchet
• Anything that serves as an enticement.
  • synonyms: bait, come-on, lure, sweetener
• A mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something.
  • synonyms: claw
• A curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something.
• A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer.
  • usage: "he took lessons to cure his hooking"
  • synonyms: draw, hooking
• A short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent.
• A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket.
  • synonyms: hook shot

verb

• Fasten with a hook.
• Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.
  • synonyms: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob
• Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle.
  • usage: "She sat there crocheting all day"
  • synonyms: crochet
• Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left.
• Take by theft.
  • usage: "Someone snitched my wallet"
  • synonyms: snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom
• Make off with belongings of others.
  • synonyms: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
• Hit with a hook.
  • usage: "His opponent hooked him badly"
• Catch with a hook.
  • usage: "hook a fish"
• To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug.
  • synonyms: addict
• Secure with the foot.
  • usage: "hook the ball"
• Entice and trap.
  • usage: "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"
  • synonyms: snare
• Approach with an offer of sexual favors.
  • usage: "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
  • synonyms: solicit, accost

• (n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• (n.) A piece of metal or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
• (n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
• (n.) A snare; a trap.
• (v.t.) To steal.
• (v.t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• (n.) A field sown two years in succession.
• (n.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.
• (v.i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.
• (v.t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture or hold, as with a hook, especially with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
• (n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
• (n.) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end; as, Sandy Hook.
• (v.i.) To move or go with a sudden turn;.
• (v.i.) to make off; to clear out; -- often with it.