String and Step

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

• Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
  • usage: "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime"
  • synonyms: measure
• The distance covered by a step.
  • usage: "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"
  • synonyms: footstep, pace, stride
• The act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down.
  • usage: "he walked with unsteady steps"
• Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
  • usage: "he paused on the bottom step"
  • synonyms: stair
• Relative position in a graded series.
  • usage: "always a step behind"; "subtle gradations in color"; "keep in step with the fashions"
  • synonyms: gradation
• A short distance.
  • usage: "it's only a step to the drugstore"
  • synonyms: stone's throw
• The sound of a step of someone walking.
  • usage: "he heard footsteps on the porch"
  • synonyms: footfall, footstep
• A musical interval of two semitones.
  • synonyms: tone, whole tone, whole step
• A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface.
  • usage: "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"
  • synonyms: footprint, footmark
• A solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed.
• A sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance.
  • usage: "he taught them the waltz step"
  • synonyms: dance step

verb

• Shift or move by taking a step.
  • usage: "step back"
• Put down or press the foot, place the foot.
  • usage: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "step on the brake"
  • synonyms: tread
• Cause (a computer) to execute a single command.
• Treat badly.
  • usage: "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"
  • synonyms: mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, ill-treat
• Furnish with steps.
  • usage: "The architect wants to step the terrace"
• Move with one's feet in a specific manner.
  • usage: "step lively"
• Walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner.
  • usage: "step over to the blackboard"
• Place (a ship's mast) in its step.
• Measure (distances) by pacing.
  • usage: "step off ten yards"
  • synonyms: pace
• Move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation.
  • usage: "She stepped into a life of luxury"; "he won't step into his father's footsteps"

• (n.) At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion.
• (v.i.) One of a series of offsets or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
• (v.i.) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
• (v.i.) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
• (v.i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
• (v.i.) Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
• (a.) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
• (v.t.) To set, as the foot.
• (v.i.) A rest or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair or a round of a ladder.
• (v.i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
• (a.) Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
• (v.i.) An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
• (a.) To walk slowly, gravely or resolutely.
• (v.i.) Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
• (v.i.) Walk; passage.
• (v.i.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
• (v.i.) The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step or by steps.
• (a.) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place or by moving both feet in succession.
• (v.t.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
• (v.i.) A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
• (v.i.) A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.

• , American: Form of Steven. crown
• American: From the name Steven