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.
2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
In 1933, disgusted and discouraged after a string of commercial failures, Clara quit the film business forever. She was twenty-six.
a string of successes
(countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
(countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
(music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
(billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
(historical,billiards) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
(billiards, by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.
(billiards, pool) 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; also called the string line.
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
(archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
1631, [Francis Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…], 3rd edition, London: […]VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee[…], OCLC1044372886:
Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
Synonym of stable(“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
2006, Steve Niles, Jeff Mariotte, 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead (page 307)
They were turning tricks, doing drugs, and generally little better off than they had been before, except that they were keeping more of their money. But they seemed lonely, too, without the company of their pimp and the rest of his string.
It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.
(intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
(intransitive,billiards) To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
(birdwatching) To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 81:
To be honest, you'd be better off trying to string a Skylark as a Richard's Pipit rather than as a Pectoral Sandpiper.
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 67:
For instance he might see a White-eared Honeyeater, a not uncommon bird in the heathy areas at Bunyip, but in his excitement to call it, something in his brain scrambled and came out as: `White-cheeked Honeyeater!' White-cheeked Honeyeater is an absolute stonking crippler in Victoria, but Stu was not actually trying to string a rarity, he'd just got such a flood of new information swirling around his brain that sometimes it got jumbled up.
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