STRING  , a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• TERM

term for thin See also:

• CORD (derived through the Fr. corde, from the Lat. chorda, Gr. xop(5rt, the string of a musical instrument)

cord, or stout See also:

• THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)

thread, a See also:

• LINE

line or cord on which See also:

• OBJECTS

objects are strung . The O . Eng. word is streng, cf . See also:

• DAN

Dan. streng, Ger . See also:

• STRANG, WILLIAM (1859- )

Strang, and meant that which is strongly or tightly See also:

• TWISTED

twisted; it is related to "strong," and is to be referred to the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root seen also in See also:

• LAT

Lat. stringere, to draw tight, whence "stringent" and "strict," and in Gr. orparyaXrl, a halter, whence comes " strangle," to choke, throttle . The word is particularly used of the cord of a See also:

• BOW (pronounced " bo ")

bow, and of the stretched cords of gut and See also:

• WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire upon a musical See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument, the vibration of which produces the tones (see STRINGED See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

INSTRUMENTS below) . In See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture the term " string-course is applied to the projecting course or moulding See also:

• RUNNING

running horizontally along the See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face of a See also:

• BUILDING

building .