English Dictionary

stringer

IPA（発音記号）

/stɹɪŋə/

名詞

俗語 廃用

Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. / Someone who strings someone along.

日本語の意味

弓などで使用される弦（ひも）を作ったり提供したりする人 / 他人を虚偽の約束などでだます、あるいは誤解させ続ける人

The stringer skillfully threaded the beads onto the necklace, humming softly as she worked.

その糸を通す人は、作業しながら静かに鼻歌を歌い、器用にビーズをネックレスに通した。

意味（1）

Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.

意味（2）

Someone who strings someone along.

意味（3）

A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.

A startled man looked out the office window and then rushed for the door, but the boys were too quick for him. They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door.

意味（4）

The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.

意味（5）

A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.

意味（6）

(journalism) A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.

And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday.

意味（7）

(sports) A person who plays on a particular string.

意味（8）

(surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.

意味（9）

(baseball, slang, 1800s) A hard-hit ball.

意味（10）

(fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.

Okay, that's a keeper, Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.

意味（11）

A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.

意味（12）

(obsolete) A libertine; a wencher.

A whoreson tyrant! He has been an old stringer in's days

意味（13）

(birdwatching) A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.

[T]hose fellows know how to spot a stringer at work.

stringers （ plural ）