usage: a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
4. string, cord
usage: a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding; "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought"
5. string, train, series
usage: a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
6. string, sequence
usage: a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening; "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag"
7. drawstring, drawing string, string, tie
usage: a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
8. string, fiber, fibre
usage: (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
9. string, cosmic string, elementary particle, fundamental particle
usage: a collection of objects threaded on a single strand