plural of string vest

a musician who plays a string instrument, one where a bow is used, often in an orchestra.

Synonym of double bass (“lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family”).

Alternative form of navel-string

(music) Any of a set of auxiliary strings found on certain musical instruments, generally not played directly by the performer but used to provide resonance in response to the main strings.

plural of sympathetic string

plural of apron-string

(historical, usually in the plural) Strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk.

(archaic) A bridle for a horse

(physics) A proposed extended object whose collective behaviour is considered to model the existence and properties of some subatomic particles