a lightweight cord | a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose |
a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit |
a necklace made by stringing objects together | a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head |
a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket | 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 collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand | something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares |
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) | |