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string has 12 distinct synonyms spread across 9 of its 17 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is unstring.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
stringed instruments that are played with a bow
“the strings played superlatively well”
a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.)
a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
“he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag”
a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
(cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
stretch out or arrange like a string
string together; tie or fasten with a string
“string the package”
remove the stringy parts of
“string beans”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for string come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.