a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers | a lightweight cord |
a bank of keys on a musical instrument | a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening |
a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | a necklace made by stringing objects together |
| a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket |
| a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand |
| stringed instruments that are played with a bow |
| a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.) |
| a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding |
| (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop |
| a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod) |