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String vs Thong - What's the difference?

string | thong |

As nouns the difference between string and thong

is that string is a long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together while thong is a strip of leather.

As a verb string

is to put (items) on a string.

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") * ----

    thong

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strip of leather.
  • (usually, in the plural, Australia, US) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.
  • * 1964 , The Beach Boys, All Summer Long
    • T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).
  • * 2006 , Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour , Thomson, page 108,
    • Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs , shorts and T-shirts.
  • * 2008 , Steve Parish, Eccentric Australia , page 104,
    • Thongs are the favoured footwear for many Aussies, especially near the beaches, but most people in the Outback find that they can?t put a foot wrong with a tough, nicely worn-in pair or workboots.
  • * 2009 , Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney , Lonely Planet, page 126,
    • You shouldn?t face condescension if you rock into a boutique in your thongs and a singlet, but neither will you be treated like a princess just because you?ve splashed $5000 on daddy?s credit card.
  • (UK, US, New Zealand) An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.
    • No! I won't buy you a thong . You're too young for that.

    Synonyms

    * (an item of footwear) flip-flop, jandal (New Zealand) * (a undergarment or swimwear) G-string, butt floss

    See also

    * sandal