String and Term

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

term

noun

A word or expression used for some particular thing.
- usage: "he learned many medical terms"
A limited period of time.
- usage: "a prison term"; "he left school before the end of term"
Usually plural. ( a statement of what is required as part of an agreement)
- usage: "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous"
- synonyms: condition
Any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial.
- usage: "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree"
One of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition.
- usage: "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice"
The end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent.
- usage: "a healthy baby born at full term"
- synonyms: full term
Architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome.
- synonyms: terminus, terminal figure

verb

Name formally or designate with a term. .

(n.) Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions.
(n.) To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate.
(n.) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
(n.) The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life.
(n.) In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents.
(n.) A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration.
(n.) The menses.
(n.) A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd.
(n.) That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
(n.) In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.
(n.) The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives or for a term of years.
(n.) A point, line or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
(n.) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
(n.) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation.
(n.) The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes.
(n.) A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses or is peculiar to a science, art, profession or the like; as, a technical term.
(n.) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

This report column represents the life of the investment from the settlement date to the maturity date. For positions without a maturity date, such as cash accounts, the' Term' is always listed as one day. The Subtotal and Average line for the Term column represents the weighted average life of the investments listed.

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