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   string

   /strɪŋ/

   noun

   • 1. material consisting of threads of cotton, hemp, or other material twisted together to form a thin length: "unwieldy packs tied up with string" Similar twinecordyarnthreadstrandfibreropecablelinewireligaturethonghawserrare:fillis
   • ▪ a piece of string used to tie round or attach to something: "the elephant mask had a trunk you could raise by pulling a string"
   • ▪ a piece of catgut or similar material interwoven with others to form the head of a sports racket.
   • ▪ a length of catgut or wire on a musical instrument, producing a note by vibration: "the D string broke"
   • ▪ the stringed instruments in an orchestra: "the blend of the wind-group is less perfect than that of the strings" Similar stringed instruments
   • ▪ relating to or consisting of stringed instruments: "a string quartet"
   • 2. a set of things tied or threaded together on a thin cord: "she wore a string of agates round her throat" Similar strandropenecklacerosarychaplet
   • ▪ a sequence of similar items or events: "a string of burglaries" Similar seriessuccessionchainsequenceconcatenationrunstreakpattern
   • ▪ a linear sequence of characters, words, or other data.
   • ▪ a group of racehorses trained at one stable.
   • ▪ a reserve team or player holding a specified position in an order of preference: "the village team held Rangers' second string to a 0–0 draw"
   • ▪ a player assigned a specified rank in a team in an individual sport such as squash: "Taylor lost to third string Baines"
   • 3. a tough piece of fibre in vegetables, meat, or other food, such as a tough elongated piece connecting the two halves of a bean pod.
   • 4. a G-string or thong.
   • 5. short for stringboard
   • 6. a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having the dynamical properties of a flexible loop.
   • ▪ a hypothetical threadlike concentration of energy within the structure of space–time.

   verb

   • 1. hang (something) so that it stretches in a long line: "lights were strung across the promenade" Similar hangsuspendslingstretchthreadloopfestoonstretchslingrunfastentiesecurelink
   • ▪ thread (a series of small objects) on a string: "he collected stones with holes in them and strung them on a strong cord" Similar threadlooplinkjoin
   • ▪ be arranged in a long line: "the houses were strung along the road"
   • 2. fit a string or strings to (a musical instrument, a racket, or a bow): "the harp had been newly strung"
   • 3. remove the strings from (a bean).
   • 4. hoax or trick (someone): informal North American "I'm not stringing you—I'll eat my shirt if it's not true"
   • 5. work as a stringer in journalism: informal "he strings for almost every French radio service"
   • 6. determine the order of play by striking the cue ball from baulk to rebound off the top cushion, first stroke going to the player whose ball comes to rest nearer the bottom cushion.

   Word Origin Old Englishstreng (noun), of Germanic origin; related to German Strang, also to strong. The verb (dating from late Middle English) is first recorded in the senses ‘arrange in a row’ and ‘fit with a string’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. stringless adjective
   • 2. stringlike adjective

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   Jan 19, 2024 · What is String – Definition & Meaning. In Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA), a String can also be defined as a sequence of characters, stored in contiguous memory locations, terminated by a special character called the null character ‘\0’.

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   A string is a data type used in programming, such as an integer and floating point unit, but is used to represent text rather than numbers. It is comprised of a set of characters that can also contain spaces and numbers.

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   8 Answers. Sorted by: 31. Prefer the second option. If you use the first option (preprocessor), you are limiting your flexibility with the object. Consider the following... You won't be able to compare strings this way: if (str1 == "some string") { // ... } edited Jul 24, 2014 at 18:52.

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   2 days ago · A string is a sequence of characters. The following facts make string an interesting data structure. Small set of elements. Unlike normal array where we can have larger values, strings typically have smaller set of items. For example, lowercase English alphabet has only 26 characters. ASCII has only 256 characters.

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   Aug 25, 2022 · You can also define a string where there are only numbers or combinations of two or more types of characters. Empty Strings. As the name suggests, an empty string is a string with no values. You can easily initialize a string by keeping the quotation marks empty. Also, you must know that an empty string and space are different.