String vs Array - What's the difference?

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String is a related term of array.

As nouns the difference between string and array

is that string is thong (as undergarment or swimwear) while array is clothing and ornamentation.

As a verb array is

to clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.

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") * ----

array

English

Noun

(en noun)

Clothing and ornamentation.

(Dryden)

A collection laid out to be viewed in full.

An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.

* Prescott

a gallant array of nobles and cavaliers

Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.

drawn up in battle array

* Gibbon

wedged together in the closest array

A large collection.

* Byron

their long array of sapphire and of gold

We offer a dazzling array of choices.

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(programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially , a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.

(legal) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.

(military) A militia.

Usage notes

* (any of various data structures) The exact usage of the term , and of related terms, generally depends on the programming language. For example, many languages distinguish a fairly low-level "array" construct from a higher-level "list" or "vector" construct. Some languages distinguish between an "array" and a variety of "associative array"; others have only the latter concept, calling it an "array".

Derived terms

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Antonyms

* (orderly series) disarray

Verb

To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire

He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.

To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal

(legal) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.

(Blackstone)