a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | a lightweight cord |
strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit | a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening |
a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head | a necklace made by stringing objects together |
a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities | a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket |
something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares | 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) |