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string·y

(strĭng′ē)

adj. string·i·er, string·i·est

1. Consisting of, resembling, or containing strings or a string.

2. Slender and sinewy; wiry.

3. Forming strings, as a viscous liquid; ropy.

string′i·ly adv.

string′i·ness n.

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stringy

(ˈstrɪŋɪ)

adj, stringier or stringiest

1. made of strings or resembling strings

2. (Cookery) (of meat, etc) fibrous

3. (of a person's build) wiry; sinewy

4. (of liquids) forming in strings

ˈstringily adv

ˈstringiness n

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string•y

(ˈstrɪŋ i)

adj. string•i•er, string•i•est.

1. resembling or consisting of strings or stringlike pieces: stringy weeds.

2. toughly fibrous: stringy meat.

3. lean and sinewy; wiry: a stringy build.

4. ropy, as a glutinous liquid.

[1660–70]

string′i•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	stringy - lean and sinewy wiry lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
	2.	stringy - (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew sinewy, unchewable, fibrous tough - resistant to cutting or chewing
	3.	stringy - forming viscous or glutinous threads thready, ropey, ropy thick - relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog"
	4.	stringy - consisting of or containing string or strings insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal - lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"

stringy

adjective

1. fibrous, tough, chewy, sinewy, gristly, wiry The meat was stringy.

2. straggly, thin, straggling, lank an enormously fat man with long, stringy gray hair

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Translations

ذو ألياف

vláknitý

senettrevlet

faserig

filandreux

trefjóttur; sinamikill, seigur

filamentoso

treen

lifli

多筋的

stringy

[ˈstrɪŋɪ] ADJ (stringier (compar) (stringiest (superl))) → fibroso, lleno de fibras

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

stringy

[ˈstrɪŋi] adj

[meat] → filandreux/euse

(= straggly) [hair] → filasse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

stringy

adj (+er) meat → sehnig, zäh, faserig; vegetable → faserig, voller Fäden; person → sehnig; plant, seaweed, root → lang und dünn; hair → strähnig

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stringy

[ˈstrɪŋɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (meat, celery) → filaccioso/a; (cooked cheese) → filante; (plant, hair) → lungo/a e rado/a

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string

(striŋ) noun

1. (a piece of) long narrow cord made of threads twisted together, or tape, for tying, fastening etc. a piece of string to tie a parcel; a ball of string; a puppet's strings; apron-strings.

2. a fibre etc, eg on a vegetable.

3. a piece of wire, gut etc on a musical instrument, eg a violin. His A-string broke; (also adjective) He plays the viola in a string orchestra.

4. a series or group of things threaded on a cord etc. a string of beads.

verb – past tense, past participle strung (straŋ) –

1. to put (beads etc) on a string etc. The pearls were sent to a jeweller to be strung.

2. to put a string or strings on (eg a bow or stringed instrument). The archer strung his bow and aimed an arrow at the target.

3. to remove strings from (vegetables etc).

4. to tie and hang with string etc. The farmer strung up the dead crows on the fence.

strings noun plural

(in an orchestra, the group of people who play) stringed instruments, ie violins, violas, 'cellos and double basses. The conductor said the strings were too loud.

ˈstringy adjective

(especially of meat or vegetables) having a lot of tough fibres.

ˈstringiness noun

string bean

the long, edible green or yellow pod of certain beans.

stringed instruments

musical instruments that have strings eg violins, guitars etc.

have (someone) on a string

to have (a person) under one's control.

pull strings

to use one's influence or that of others to gain an advantage.

pull the strings

to be the person who is really, though usually not apparently, controlling the actions of others.

string out

to stretch into a long line. The runners were strung out along the course.

strung up

very nervous.

stringent (ˈstrindʒənt) adjective

(of rules etc) very strict, or strongly enforced. There should be much more stringent laws against the dropping of rubbish in the streets.

ˈstringently adverb

ˈstringency noun

1. the quality of being strict.

2. scarcity of money for lending etc. in times of stringency; (also adjective) The government are demanding stringency measures.

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It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting.

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They could get no fowls; old, purplish, stringy cocks were all they had for roasting and boiling.

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Under his stringy black locks I saw his ear; it jumped upon me suddenly close to my face.

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Passepartout wandered for several hours in the midst of this motley crowd, looking in at the windows of the rich and curious shops, the jewellery establishments glittering with quaint Japanese ornaments, the restaurants decked with streamers and banners, the tea-houses, where the odorous beverage was being drunk with saki, a liquor concocted from the fermentation of rice, and the comfortable smoking-houses, where they were puffing, not opium, which is almost unknown in Japan, but a very fine, stringy tobacco.

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Upon the end of his long, stringy neck his little head was cocked to one side, his close-set eyes were half closed, his ears, so expressive was his whole attitude of stealthy eavesdropping, seemed truly to be cocked forward--even his long, yellow, straggly moustache appeared to assume a sly droop.

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She belonged to the type which always has a stringy black feather in its hat and straggling locks of hair on its neck.

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On top of this were the rooms where they dried the "tankage," the mass of brown stringy stuff that was left after the waste portions of the carcasses had had the lard and tallow dried out of them.

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His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings.

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I shall dream that it is resting its corded arms on the bed's head and looking down on me with its dead eyes; I shall dream that it is stretched between the sheets with me and touching me with its exposed muscles and its stringy cold legs.

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Their stringy muscles seemed founts of inexhaustible energy.

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This other man was shorter of leg and longer of arm, with muscles that were stringy and knotty rather than rounded and swelling.

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From the wild stringy root of human uprightness, she has reared a due sense of the Divine justice.