String


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String or strings may refer to:

  • String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects

Places

  • String Lake, a lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States.

People

  • Strings, the nickname of the Swedish musician Robert Dahlqvist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Strings (1991 film), a Canadian animated short
  • Strings (2004 film), a film directed by Anders Rønnow Klarlund
  • Strings (2011 film), an American dramatic thriller film
  • Strings (2012 film), a British film by Rob Savage
  • Bravetown (2015 film), an American drama film originally titled Strings
  • The String (2009), a French film

Music

Groups

  • String band, musical ensemble composed mostly or entirely of string instruments, common in bluegrass, jazz, and country music
  • Strings (band), a pop rock band from Pakistan
  • String Sisters, band

Genres

Instruments and types of groups

  • String (music), the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments
  • String instrument, a musical instrument that produces sound through vibrating strings
  • String orchestra, orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family
  • String piano, a pianistic extended technique in which sound is produced by direct manipulation of the strings, rather than striking the piano's keys
  • String quartet, musical ensemble of four string players, common in chamber music ensembles
  • String section ("the strings"), section of a larger symphony orchestra composed of string musicians

Albums and EPs

  • Strings (EP), an EP by Kristin Hersh
  • Strings (Strings album), the debut album by Strings
  • Strings!, a 1967 album by jazz guitarist Pat Martino

Songs

  • "Strings", by Blink-182 from Buddha, 1994
  • "Strings", by Shawn Mendes from Handwritten, 2015
  • "Strings, Strings", by Gerald Levert from G, 2000

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • "String", a Monty Python sketch about a marketing campaign for string, appearing initially on their Contractual Obligation Album
  • String, a character controlled by Marik in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Japanese manga
  • Silly String, a child's toy, also known as aerosol string
  • "String Theory", a season 4 episode of The Shield

Drilling

Fashion

Foods and cooking

  • String of a bean, in cooking, is the hard fibrous spine that runs the length of the pod in all but stringless varieties
  • String bean, a name for several different varieties of bean
  • String cheese, a common name for several different types of cheese
  • String hopper, a rice noodle dish

Mathematics

  • String graph, an intersection graph of curves in the plane; each curve is called a "string"
  • String group, in group theory

Science and computing

Bioinformatics

  • STRING (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins), a database and web resource of known and predicted protein-protein interactions

Computer sciences

  • String (computer science), sequence of alphanumeric text or other symbols in computer programming
    • C string handling, a header in the C standard library
    • String literal, the notation for representing a string value within the text of a computer program
    • String (C++), a class in the C++ Standard Library
    • Strings (Unix), a Unix program for finding character strings in binary files
  • Connection string, a string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it

Medicine

  • Brock string, an instrument used in vision therapy
  • String galvanometer, an instrument that provided the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG)
  • String sign, a medical term used in diagnosing hypertrophy pyloric stenosis

Physics

  • Cosmic string, a hypothetical 1-dimensional (spatially) topological defect in various fields
  • Dirac string, a fictitious one-dimensional curve in space, stretching between two magnetic monopoles
  • String theory, a popular grand unified theory
    • String (physics), one of the main objects of study in string theory
    • Black string is a higher-dimensional (more than 4-dimensional) generalization of a black hole

Sports

Transport and navigation

Other uses

  • Pushing on a string, metaphor
  • String bog
  • String potentiometer, a transducer used to detect and measure linear position and velocity using a flexible cable and spring-loaded spool
  • String Publishing, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
  • String puzzle, any mechanical puzzle whose emphasis is on manipulating one or more pieces of string or rope
  • String ribbon, ribbon made of string
  • String trimmer, a device for cutting grass and other small plants

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with String
  • All pages with titles containing String
  • Chain (disambiguation)
  • Heart Strings (disambiguation)
  • Red string (disambiguation)
  • Strine (disambiguation)
  • String of pearls (disambiguation)

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