string
verbEtymology From Middle English stryngen, strengen, from the noun (see above).
1
To put (items) on a string.
- You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
2
To put strings on (something).
- It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.
3
To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
4
Ball games, Billiards, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
5
Biology, Birdwatching, Natural sciences, Ornithology 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.
- To be honest, you'd be better off trying to string a Skylark as a Richard's Pipit rather than as a Pectoral Sandpiper.1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 81:
- For instance he might see a White-eared Honeyeater, a not uncommon bird in the heathy areas at Bunyip, but in his excitement to call it, something in his brain scrambled and came out as: `White-cheeked Honeyeater!' White-cheeked Honeyeater is an absolute stonking crippler in Victoria, but Stu was not actually trying to string a rarity, he'd just got such a flood of new information swirling around his brain that sometimes it got jumbled up.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 67:
- Derived terms
- restring, string on, stringer, stringified, stringifier, stringify
- Related terms
- string along, stringed, string out, string up