String vs Band - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between string and band

is that string is thong (as undergarment or swimwear) while band is tape.

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") * ----

band

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) band (also bond), from (etyl) beand, .

Noun

(en noun)

A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.

# A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.

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# A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.

#* 1843 , (Thomas Hood), (The Song of the Shirt)

band and gusset and seam

# A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.

# A belt or strap that is part of a machine.

(label) A strip of decoration.

# A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.

# In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

to join in Hymen's bands

A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

(label) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

(label) A part of the radio spectrum.

(label) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.

(obsolete) A bond.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

thy oath and band

(label) Pledge; security.

(Spenser)

A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.

Derived terms

* bandless * elastic band * gum band * lacquer band * rubber band * smart band * wedding band

Verb

(en verb)

To fasten with a band.

(ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).

Etymology 2

From (etyl) band, from (etyl) bande, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A group of musicians, especially (a) wind and percussion players, or (b) rock musicians.

A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music; i.e. marching band.

A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).

* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23

"My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."

(anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society.

* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)

But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

(Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.

Derived terms

* band rotunda * bandstand * brass band * jug band * marching band

Descendants

* German (colloquial, "Denglish"):

Verb

(en verb)

To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.

* Bible, Acts xxiii. 12

Certain of the Jews banded together.

Derived terms

* band together