string

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/stɹɪŋ/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 集合名詞 換喩的 通例複数形 比喩的用法 複数形 俗語 歴史的 広義 古語 古風

thin rope

日本語の意味

ひも / 糸 / 細い縄

英語の意味

thin rope

ロシア語

тонкая верёвка / шнур / бечёвка

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She tied the package with a thin string before mailing it.

彼女は郵送する前に小包を細い紐で結んだ。

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意味（1）

(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string. (countable) A thread

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意味（2）

(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.

意味（3）

(countable) A thread

意味（4）

(music) A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.

a violinstring

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意味（5）

(sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.

意味（6）

A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.

a string of shells or beads

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意味（7）

(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.

The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive

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意味（8）

(countable) A series of items or events.

In 1933, disgusted and discouraged after a string of commercial failures, Clara quit the film business forever. She was twenty-six.

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意味（9）

(countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.

意味（10）

(countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.

意味（11）

(collective) A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.

意味（12）

(countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.

意味（13）

(music, metonymically, countable) A stringed instrument.

意味（14）

(music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.

意味（15）

(figuratively, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.

no strings attached

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意味（16）

(countable, physics) The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.

意味（17）

(slang) Cannabis or marijuana.

意味（18）

(billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.

意味（19）

(historical, billiards) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.

意味（20）

(billiards, by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.

意味（21）

(billiards, pool) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.

意味（22）

A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

Many of those that pretend to be great Rabbies in these studies have scarce saluted them from the strings, and the titlepage.

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意味（23）

(archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.

Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.

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意味（24）

(archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

The string of his tongue was loosed.

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意味（25）

(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

意味（26）

(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.

the strings of beans

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意味（27）

(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

a single miner is often found pursuing his solitary labours at a string or thin vein of ore

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意味（28）

(architecture) A stringcourse.

意味（29）

(dated, slang) A hoax; a fake story.

意味（30）

Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)

They were turning tricks, doing drugs, and generally little better off than they had been before, except that they were keeping more of their money. But they seemed lonely, too, without the company of their pimp and the rest of his string.

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意味（31）

(oil industry) A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.

strings （ plural ）