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The correct spelling is string.
How to pronounce string
/stɹɪŋ/
nounIPA: /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.A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
- 2.(metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
- 3.A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
- 4.An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
- 5.A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
verb
- 1.To put (items) on a string.
- 2.To put strings on (something).
- 3.To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- 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.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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