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Splint vs String - What's the difference?

splint | string |

As nouns the difference between splint and string

is that splint is a narrow strip of wood split or peeled off of a larger piece while string is thong (as undergarment or swimwear).

As a verb splint

is to apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.

splint

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow strip of wood split or peeled off of a larger piece.
  • (medicine) A device to immobilize a body part.
    • 1900' ''But it so happened that I had a man in the hospital at the time, and going there to see about him the day before the opening of the Inquiry, I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in '''splints , and quite light-headed.'' Joseph Conrad, ''Lord Jim , Chapter 5.
  • A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
  • A segment of armor.
    • 1819 The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by ''splints'' , or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ankle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour.'' — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe , Chapter 1.
  • A bone found on either side of the horse's cannon bone; second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
  • A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
  • splent coal

    • Usage notes

    * For a horse to (term) is for it to receive an injury to the splint bone or surrounding area.

    Derived terms

    * shin splint

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
  • To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
  • (obsolete, rare, transitive) To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.
    • (Florio)

    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") * ----