Mob vs String - What's the difference?
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An unruly group of people.
*(James Madison), Jr. (1751-1836)
*:Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob .
A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle.
The Mafia, or a similar group that engages in organized crime (preceded by the ).
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob , he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
*1986 , (Paul Chadwick), Concrete: Under the Desert Stars , Dark Horse Books
*:What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but …
(lb) A non-player character that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.
*2002 , "Wolfie", Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.everquest )
*:You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players.
(lb) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters.
(lb) A cohesive group of people.
*2011 March 10, Allan Clarke,
*:There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry.
To crowd around (someone), often with hostility.
To crowd into or around a place.
(video games) The act of a player aggroing enemies so they follow them and gather, forming a mob of foes. (rfex)
(obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
A mob cap.
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
* Prior
(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
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.
* Gibbon
(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
(countable) A series of items or events.
(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)
(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.
A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
* Francis Bacon
A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
* Bible, Mark vii. 35
(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.
(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(architecture) A stringcourse.
To put (items) on a string.
To put strings on (something).
Mob is a related term of string.
As an initialism mob
is (nautical) m'an '''o'''ver ' b oard, used eg on the emergency button of a satellite navigator by pushing the button the operator stores the coordinates of a man overboard incident for easy access.As a noun string is
thong (as undergarment or swimwear).mob
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), short for mobile, from (etyl) . The video-gaming sense originates from English mobile, used by (Richard Bartle) for objects capable of movement in an early MUD.Noun
(en noun)W.A. through Noongar eyes
Derived terms
* flash mob * lynch mob * meal mob * mob rule * mob-handed * mobber * mobbish * mobbist * mobbism * moblike * mobmobile * mobocracy * mobster * vote mobSynonyms
* (mafia) mafia, MafiaVerb
(mobb)- The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
- The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.
Etymology 2
Alteration of (mab).Noun
(en noun)- (Goldsmith)
Derived terms
* mob capVerb
(mobb)Etymology 3
Abbreviation of mobile phone.Usage notes
* This is most often used in signwriting to match with with the other three-letter abbreviations and (fax).Anagrams
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English
Noun
- Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string .
- a violin string
- a bowstring
- a string''' of shells or beads; a '''string of sausages
- a string of islands
- The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive
- a string of successes
- no strings attached
- (Milton)
- Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
- The string of his tongue was loosed.
- the strings of beans
- (Ure)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* score string * second stringSynonyms
* (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, provisosDescendants
* Portuguese:Verb
- You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
- It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.