What is the difference between string and wire?

In uncountable terms the difference between string and wire

is that string is such a structure considered as a substance while wire is metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.

As nouns the difference between string and wire

is that string is a long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together while wire is metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.

As verbs the difference between string and wire

is that string is to put (items) on a string while wire is to fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.

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") * ----

wire

English

Noun

(label) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.

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A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.

A metal conductor that carries electricity.

A fence made of usually barbed wire.

(label) A finish line of a racetrack.

(label) A telecommunication wire or cable

(label) An electric telegraph; a telegram.

(label) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.

(label) A deadline or critical endpoint.

(label) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.

Synonyms

* (thin thread of metal ): cable, steel wire, thread * (metal conductor that carries electricity ): conducting wire * (fencing made of usually barbed wire ): barbed wire * (informal: telegraph''): ''See telegraph * (informal: message transmitted by telegraph''): ''See telegram * (object used to keep the score in billiards) score string

Derived terms

* baling wire * barbed wire, barbed-wire * be on the wire * by wire * chicken wire * down to the wire * earthing wire * get one’s wires crossed]], [[have one's wires crossed, have one’s wires crossed * guy wire/guy-wire * haywire * live wire * piano wire * pull wires * pull the wires * razor wire * trawlwire * trip wire * under the wire * wire broadcasting * wire clippers * wire cutter * wire entanglement * wireform * wireless * wire recorder * wire rope * wire transfer * wiretap * wire wool * woven wire * wiry

Verb

(wir)

To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.

* 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 222:

I could see him in his plane flying low over the river or a reservoir, dropping the club out with a chunk of lead wired to the shaft.

To string on a wire.

To equip with wires for use with electricity.

To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.

I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.

(label) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.

To make someone tense or psyched up.

(label) To install eavesdropping equipment.

To snare by means of a wire or wires.

Synonyms

* (to equip for use with electricity ): electrify * (informal: to send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system ): cable, telegraph

Antonyms

* (to fasten with wire ): unwire

Troponyms

* (to fasten with wire ): rewire * (to equip for use with electricity ): rewire

Derived terms

* wire away * wire in * wire into

Anagrams

* weir 1000 English basic words