String

  • 61String — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. String est un mot anglais qui signifie littéralement ficelle ou corde : en lingerie, un string est un type de sous vêtement. en informatique, le… …

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  • 62string — n. grouping of players according to ability first; second string (see also strings) * * * [strɪŋ] second string (see also strings) [ grouping of players according to ability ] first …

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  • 63string — v. a. == pierce. Cf. our phrase, ‘string papers together,’ i. e. pierce them, and then unite them by a string. Body and Soul, 207. Another form of ‘sting’ sb. RG. 456; == rope. Ps. civ. 11. AS. streng == direction of going? Ps. cxxxviii. 3 …

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  • 64string up — 1) see string 8) 2) PHRASAL VERB To string someone up means to kill them by hanging them. [INFORMAL] [V n P] Guards rushed into his cell and strung him up. [Also V P n (not pron)] …

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  • 65string — strɪŋ n. cord; something resembling a cord or thread; fiber of a plant; group of objects linked together; series of connected events; chain of characters which are processed as one unit (Computers) v. furnish with strings; tie with a string;… …

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  • 66string up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms string up : present tense I/you/we/they string up he/she/it strings up present participle stringing up past tense strung up past participle strung up informal to kill someone by hanging them …

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  • 67string up — adjective a) To kill by hanging, especially to lynch. Id string up the whole lot if I had my way, Silver. Poachers and blackguards every one of them. b) To suspend by means of rope, cord or similar material …

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  • 68string up — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. hang, execute by hanging, hang by the neck until dead; see kill 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb Informal. To execute by suspending by the neck: gibbet, hang. Slang: swing. See HELP. II verb See string …

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  • 69string — [OE] String is etymologically something that has been pulled ‘taut’ or ‘stiff’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic base *strang , denoting ‘taut, stiff’, which also produced English strong. => STRONG …

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  • 70string — англ. [стринг] 1) струна 2) струнный инструм. ◊ string band [стринг бэнд] струнный орк. stringed [стри/нгэд] струнный stringed instruments [стри/нгэд инструм …

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