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string

The correct spelling is string.

How to pronounce string

/stɹɪŋ/
noun

IPA: /stɹɪŋ/

Say it like: Str-ing

The correct spelling is string. A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses. For example: "There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables."

Usage Examples

There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.

a bowstring

a string of sausages

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
  2. 2.(metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
  3. 3.A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
  4. 4.An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
  5. 5.A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.

verb

  1. 1.To put (items) on a string.
  2. 2.To put strings on (something).
  3. 3.To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
  4. 4.To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
  5. 5.To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.

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