Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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string | Yes | No | Yes | No |
thread | Yes | No | Yes | No |
string (noun) | thread (noun) |
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a lightweight cord | a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving |
a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | the raised helical rib going around a screw |
a necklace made by stringing objects together | the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together |
a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket | any long object resembling a thin line |
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) |
string (verb) | thread (verb) |
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add as if on a string | pass a thread through |
provide with strings | thread on or as if on a string |
thread on or as if on a string | remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string |
remove the stringy parts of | pass through or into |
string together; tie or fasten with a string | to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course |
stretch out or arrange like a string | |
move or come along |