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IPA: /strɪŋd/

Stringed is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 410 anagrams from letters in stringed (deginrst).

Definitions for stringed

noun

1. a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
2. something resembling a cord or thread.
3. Also called cosmic string. Physics. a mathematical entity used to represent elementary particles, as gravitons, quarks, or leptons, in terms of a small but finite stringlike object existing in the four dimensions of spacetime and in additional, hypothetical, spacelike dimensions. The theory of such objects (string theory) avoids the many mathematical difficulties that arise from treating particles as points.
4. a narrow strip of flexible material, as cloth or leather, for tying parts together:
5. a necklace consisting of a number of beads, pearls, or the like threaded or strung on a cord; strand:
6. any series of things arranged or connected in a line or following closely one after another:
7. a series of railroad cars coupled together but not constituting an entire train.
8. Journalism. a compilation of clippings of a stringer's published writings, submitted in request of payment according to an agreed space rate.
9. a group of animals, especially saddle horses, owned or used by one person:
10. (in a musical instrument) a tightly stretched cord or wire that produces a tone when caused to vibrate, as by plucking, striking, or friction of a bow.
11. strings. stringed instruments, especially those played with a bow. players on such instruments in an orchestra or band.
12. a bowstring.
13. a cord or fiber in a plant.
14. the tough piece uniting the two parts of a pod:
15. Architecture. a stringcourse. Also called stringer. one of the sloping sides of a stair, supporting the treads and risers.
16. Computers, Linguistics. a linear sequence of symbols, words, characters, or bits that is treated as a unit.
17. Billiards, Pool. a stroke made by each player from the head of the table to the opposite cushion and back, to determine, by means of the resultant positions of the cue balls, who shall open the game. Also called string line. a line from behind which the cue ball is placed after being out of play.
18. a complement of contestants or players grouped as a squad in accordance with their skill:
19. Usually, strings. conditions or limitations on a proposal:
20. Obsolete. a ligament, nerve, or the like in an animal body.

Idioms

1. on a / the string, Informal. subject to the whim of another; in one's power; dependent:
2. pull strings / wires, to use one's influence or authority, usually in secret, in order to bring about a desired result. to gain or attempt to gain one's objectives by means of influential friends, associates, etc.:

adjective

1. fitted with strings (often used in combination):
2. produced or sounded by strings:

Verb phrases

1. string along, Informal. to be in agreement; follow with confidence: to keep (a person) waiting or in a state of uncertainty. to deceive; cheat; trick.
2. string out, to extend; stretch out: to prolong:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with or as with a string or strings:
2. to extend or stretch (a cord, thread, etc.) from one point to another.
3. to thread on or as on a string:
4. to connect in or as in a line; arrange in a series or succession:
5. Music. to adjust the string of (a bow) or tighten the strings of (a musical instrument) to the required pitch. to equip (a bow or instrument) with new strings.
6. to provide or adorn with something suspended or slung:
7. to deprive of a string or strings; strip the strings from:
8. to make tense, as the sinews, nerves, mind, etc.
9. to kill by hanging (usually followed by up).
10. Slang. to fool or hoax.

verb (used without object)

1. to form into or move in a string or series:
2. to form into a string or strings, as a glutinous substance does when pulled:

Origin of stringed

before 1000; Middle English; Old English strængede; see string, -ed³

Examples for stringed

The cymbal of the Austrian gypsies is a stringed instrument, like the zitter.

The music of stringed instruments and of laughter floated out to her.

From the distance could be heard the sound of flutes and of stringed instruments.

They have also a kind of clarinet, three or four different sorts of trumpets, and a stringed instrument not unlike a violoncello.

What are the musical intervals in which the stringed instruments are tuned?

Sancho, a stringed instrument from Senegambia, Western Africa.

The door was open of that house; the stringed instrument was laid against it.

The double orchestra is composed of oboes, flutes, and stringed instruments.

That the Egyptians had stringed instruments is unquestionable.

Note that in each case the metaphor is of a stringed instrument.