String

Definition

string /strÇŋ/ n ၁။ (က) [U] ႀကိဳး။ a ball/piece of string ❍ tie up a parcel with string. (ခ) [C] ႀကိဳး။ You move the puppet by pulling the strings. ❍ The key is hanging on a string by the door. See also DRAW-STRING, PURSE-STRINGS ၂။ (က) [C] (ႀကိဳး)တူရိယာ။ ❍ MUSICAL INSTRUMENT See also SECOND STRING (ခ) (တင္းနစ္ ဘက္တံ စသည္ရိွ)ႀကိဳး။ break a string. ၃။ the strings [pl] ႀကိဳးတပ္တူရိယာက႑။ ႀကိဳးတပ္တူရိယာအဖြဲ႕။ The strings include violins, violas, cellos and double-basses. ❍ The opening theme is taken up by the strings. ❍ MUSICAL INSTRUMENT ၄။ [C] (က) (ပုတီးစသည္) အကံုး၊ အတြဲ။ a string of beads ❍ a string of onions ❍ ( fig ) The molecules join together to form long strings. (ခ) အတန္း။ တသီတတန္း။ a string of small lakes ❍ a string of insults/lies/coincidences ❍ a whole string of visitors. ၅။ [C] ( computing ) စီကံုးထားေသာ အကၡရာ၊ သေကၤတ အတြဲ။ adj ၁။ ႀကိဳးတူရိယာ။ a string quartet ❍ a string band/orchestra. ၂။ ပိုက္ကြန္။ ကြန္။ a string bag/vest. v ( pt, pp strung /strʌŋ/ ၁။ (က) ~ sth (up) ဆြဲသည္။ သြယ္ သည္။ တန္းသည္။ Lanterns were strung in the trees around the pool. ❍ Flags had been strung up across the street. (ခ) ရစ္ပတ္သည္။ a long scarf strung around his neck/over the banister. ၂။ ~ sth (together) သီကံုးသည္။ စီတန္းသည္။ သြယ္တန္းသည္။ ( fig ) carbon atoms strung together to form giant molecules ❍ ( fig ) a line of cottages strung along the hillside. ၃။ ႀကိဳးတပ္သည္။ a loosely/tightly strung squash racket. See also HIGHLY-STRUNG ❏ (with) no strings attached/without strings [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေႏွာင္ႀကိဳးမဲ့။ an offer of £5 million in aid with no strings attached. ❏ string sb along [ PHRV ] ႀကိဳးရွည္ရွည္ႏွင့္ လံထားသည္။ She has no intention of marrying him—she's just stringing him along. ❏ string along (with sb) [ PHRV ] ေရာယိမ္းလိုက္၊ ဘသား ယိမ္းလိုက္ လုပ္သည္။ She decided to string along with the others as she had nothing else to do. ❏ string bean n = RUNNER BEAN ❏ stringed instrument n ႀကိဳးတပ္တူရိယာ။ ❏ string (sth) out [ PHRV ] ၁။ (esp passive) စီတန္း ပါလာသည္။ The Irish horse was in the lead, with the rest of the field strung out behind. ၂။ အခ်ိန္ဆြဲသည္။ stringing out the negotiations for a further six months. ❏ string sth together [ PHRV ] စာဖြဲ သ့ည္။ သီကံုးသည္။ I can just manage to string a few words of French together. ❍ She managed to string together a few words of appreciation. ❏ string sb up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ႀကိဳးေပးသည္။ If the crowd catch him , they'll string him up on the nearest tree. ❏ stringy adj ၁။ ေသးေသးမွ်င္မွ်င္။ lank stringy hair. ၂။ (esp of meat or beans) အမွ်င္မ်ားေသာ။

Examples

1. A parcel tied with string
2. A piece of string
3. The balloon was attached to a long string.
4. [string of] : A string of islands
5. A string of cars travelled up the narrow mountain road.
6. He owns a string of restaurants in Wales.
7. [a string of] : I was confronted by a string of questions.
8. A string of fires plagued the area last summer.
9. The team had a string of 13 wins last season.
10. Guitar/violin/harp strings
11. Strings of damp hair clung to her forehead.
12. [first/second string] : He made the second string on the baseball team.
13. If there are any strings involved
14. I’m really not interested.
15. [no strings attached] : The money was given with no strings attached.