String is a flexible piece of rope or twine which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects.
Examples of string use include:
- Bow string, for propelling an arrow
- Drawstring
- Kite
- Pullstring
- String art
- String bag
- String bondage
- String figure, design formed by weaving string around one's fingers
- Stampede string, a long string usually made from leather or horsehair and typically run half-way around the crown of a cowboy hat
String or strings may also refer to:
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Famous quotes containing the word string:
“Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)