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Unstrung vs Racket - What's the difference?

unstrung | racket |

As verbs the difference between unstrung and racket

is that unstrung is (unstring) while racket is to strike with, or as if with, a racket.

As a noun racket is

(label) a racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton or racket can be a loud noise.

unstrung

English

Verb

(head)
  • (unstring)

    • unstring

    English

    Verb

  • To remove the string or strings from.
  • :Unstring the bows before storing them.
  • To shake the nerves of; to cause anxiety or panic in.
  • * Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla
    • The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me
  • * Clifton Johnson, Battleground Adventures
    • A fire is the only thing that unstrings me entirely, I feel so helpless to combat it. I'm afraid of snakes, but I can kill them.
  • To split (a text string) into smaller strings by separating on a delimiter.
  • * 1980 , Norman R. Lyons, Structured Cobol for Data Processing
    • It is also possible to save the delimiters (this might prove useful if the delimiters were also some sort of text identifier) and to count the length of the data items we are unstringing .

    Synonyms

    * explode

    Anagrams

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    racket

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (sporting implement) racquet

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) raket

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
    • , passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
  • (label) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
  • A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
    • Synonyms
    * (implement) bat, paddle, racquet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
  • * Hewyt
    • Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
    See also
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    Etymology 2

    Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loud noise.
    • Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket .
    With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!
    What's all this racket ?
  • A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
    • They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.
  • (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
    • Synonyms
    * (loud noise) din, noise, ruckus * (fraud) con, fraud, scam, swindle
    Derived terms
    * racketeer, racketeering

    Anagrams

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