What is the difference between character and string?

In lang=en terms the difference between character and string

is that character is a reference given to a servant, attesting to his/her behaviour, competence, etc while string is cannabis or marijuana.

As nouns the difference between character and string

is that character is a being involved in the action of a story while string is a long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

As verbs the difference between character and string

is that character is to write (using characters); To describe while string is to put (items) on a string.

character

English

Noun

A being involved in the action of a story.

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, title= Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits , passage=But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it. }}

A distinguishing feature; characteristic.

A complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person or a group.

* Motley

a man of thoroughly subservient character

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}

Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.

He has a great deal of character .

A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.

Julius Caesar is a great historical character .

A written or printed symbol, or letter.

* Holder

It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.

Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.

an inscription in the Runic character

* Shakespeare

You know the character to be your brother's?

(computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.

(informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.

(mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.

Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.

in the miserable character of a slave

in his character as a magistrate

(dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.

a man's character for truth and veracity

Her actions give her a bad character .

* Addison

This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.

(dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to his/her behaviour, competence, etc.

Usage notes

A comparison of character'' and ''reputation'': It would be well if ''character'' and ''reputation were used distinctively. In truth, character is what a person is; reputation is what he is supposed to be. Character is in himself, reputation is in the minds of others. Character is injured by temptations, and by wrongdoing; reputation by slanders, and libels. Character endures throughout defamation in every form, but perishes when there is a voluntary transgression; reputation may last through numerous transgressions, but be destroyed by a single, and even an unfounded, accusation or aspersion.

Derived terms

* cartoon character * character actor * character assassination * character class * character encoding * characterise / characterize * characterisation / characterization * characteristic * characterless * character recognition * character set * character theory * Chinese character * control character * dominant character * escape character * fictional character * in character * null character * out of character * player character * round character * staple character * stock character * whitespace character (character)

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To write (using characters); To describe

Statistics

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string

English

Noun

(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

* Prior

Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string .

(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.

(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.

a violin string

a bowstring

A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.

a string''' of shells or beads; a '''string of sausages

* Gibbon

a string of islands

(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.

The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive

(countable) A series of items or events.

a string of successes

(countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.

(music, countable) A stringed instrument.

(music, usually in plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.

(in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively. (compare no strings attached)

no strings attached

(countable, physics) the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics

(slang) cannabis or marijuana

A miniature game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.

The points made in a game of billiards.

A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

(Milton)

A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.

* Francis Bacon

Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.

A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

* Bible, Mark vii. 35

The string of his tongue was loosed.

(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.

the strings of beans

(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

(Ure)

(architecture) A stringcourse.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* score string * second string

Synonyms

* (long, thin structure): cord, rope, line * (this structure as a substance): cord, rope, twine * (anything long and thin): * (cohesive substance in the form of a string): * (series of items or events): sequence, series * (sequence of characters in computing): * (stringed instruments): string section the strings, or the string section * (conditions): conditions, provisos

Descendants

* Portuguese:

Verb

To put (items) on a string.

You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.

To put strings on (something).

It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.

Synonyms

* (put on a string): thread * (put strings on): lace

Derived terms

* cosmic string * heartstrings * string along * string band * string quartet * string up * string vest * stringy

External links

* (wikipedia "string") * ----