String or strings may refer to: *

String (structure) String is a long flexible structure made from fibers twisted together into a single strand, or from multiple such strands which are in turn twisted together. String is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects. It is also used as a material to mak ...

, a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Strings'' (1991 film), a Canadian animated short * ''Strings'' (2004 film), a film directed by Anders Rønnow Klarlund * ''Strings'' (2011 film), an American dramatic thriller film * ''Strings'' (2012 film), a British film by Rob Savage * ''

Bravetown ''Bravetown'' is a 2015 American independent musical drama film written by Oscar Orlando Torres, and was directed by Daniel Duran in his directoral debut. The film stars Lucas Till, Josh Duhamel and Kherington Payne. The film was released in a ...

'' (2015 film), an American drama film originally titled ''Strings'' * '' The String'' (2009), a French film

Music

Instruments

String (music) A string is the vibrating element that produces sound in string instruments such as the guitar, harp, piano (piano wire), and members of the violin family. Strings are lengths of a flexible material that a musical instrument holds under tens ...

, the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments *

String instrument String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the s ...

, a musical instrument that produces sound through vibrating strings **

List of string instruments This is a list of string instruments. Bowed * Agiarut (Alaska) * Ainu fiddle (Ainu) * Ajaeng (Korea) * Alexander violin (United States) * Anzad * apache fiddle (Apache) * Apkhyarta (Abkhazia) * Arpeggione * Banhu (China) * Baryton * Baza ...

String piano String piano is a term coined by American composer-theorist Henry Cowell (1897–1965) to collectively describe those pianistic extended techniques in which sound is produced by direct manipulation of the strings, instead of or in addition to st ...

, a pianistic extended technique in which sound is produced by direct manipulation of the strings, rather than striking the piano's keys

Types of groups

String band A string band is an old-time music or jazz ensemble made up mainly or solely of string instruments. String bands were popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and are among the forerunners of modern country music and bluegrass. While being active countr ...

, musical ensemble composed mostly or entirely of string instruments, common in bluegrass, jazz, and country music *

String orchestra A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music. The instruments of such an orchestra are most often the following: the violin, which is divided into first ...

, orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family *

String quartet The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists ...

, musical ensemble of four string players, common in chamber music ensembles * String section ("the strings"), section of a larger symphony orchestra composed of string musicians

Genres

* String (Thai pop), a genre of Thai pop music

Performers

Strings (band) Strings () was a Pakistani pop/rock band composed of two members, plus four live band members from Karachi, Pakistan. The band was initially formed by four college students— Bilal Maqsood (vocals and guitars), Faisal Kapadia (vocals), Rafi ...

, a pop rock band from Pakistan *

String Sisters String Sisters (or The String Sisters) are a folk supergroup made up of six of the world's leading female fiddlers. History Formation In January 1998 at the world-renowned Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, Scotland, Shetland fiddler Catri ...

, band

Recordings

* ''Strings'' (EP), an EP by Kristin Hersh * ''Strings'' (Strings album), the debut album by Strings *'' Strings!'', a 1967 album by jazz guitarist Pat Martino * "Strings", by Blink-182 from ''

Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in Lu ...

'', 1994 * "Strings", by Shawn Mendes from '' Handwritten'', 2015 * "Strings, Strings", by Gerald Levert from '' G'', 2000

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* "String", a Monty Python sketch about a marketing campaign for string, appearing initially on their '' Contractual Obligation Album'' * String, a character controlled by Marik in the ''

Yu-Gi-Oh! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuki Takahashi. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine between September 1996 and March 2004. The plot follows the story of a boy named Yugi Mutou, wh ...

'' Japanese manga * Silly String, a child's toy, also known as aerosol string

Fashion

String bikini The bikini has spawned many stylistic variations. A regular bikini is a two-piece swimsuit that together covers the wearer's crotch, buttocks, and breasts. Some bikini designs cover larger portions of the wearer's body while other designs provide ...

Thong The thong is a garment generally used as either underwear or in some countries, as a swimsuit. It may also be worn for traditional ceremonies or competitions. Viewed from the front, the thong typically resembles a bikini bottom, but at the ...

, C-string, G-string, V-string

Foods and cooking

* String of a bean, in cooking, is the hard fibrous spine that runs the length of the pod in all but

stringless Green beans are young, unripe fruits of various cultivars of the common bean (''Phaseolus vulgaris''), although immature or young pods of the runner bean (''Phaseolus coccineus''), yardlong bean ( ''Vigna unguiculata'' subsp. ''sesquipedalis ...

varieties *

String bean Green beans are young, unripe fruits of various cultivars of the common bean (''Phaseolus vulgaris''), although immature or young pods of the runner bean (''Phaseolus coccineus''), yardlong bean ( ''Vigna unguiculata'' subsp. ''sesquipedalis ...

, a name for several different varieties of bean *

String cheese String cheese is any of several different types of cheese where the manufacturing process aligns the proteins in the cheese, which makes it stringy. When mozzarella is heated to 60 °C (140 °F) and then stretched, the milk proteins ...

, a common name for several different types of cheese * String hopper, a rice noodle dish

Mathematics

String graph In graph theory, a string graph is an intersection graph of curves in the plane; each curve is called a "string". Given a graph , is a string graph if and only if there exists a set of curves, or strings, such that the graph having a vertex for ...

, an intersection graph of curves in the plane; each curve is called a "string" * String group, in group theory

Science and technology

Bioinformatics

STRING String or strings may refer to: * String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Strings'' (1991 film), a Canadian ani ...

(Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins), a database and web resource of known and predicted protein-protein interactions

Computer sciences

String (computer science) In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable. The latter may allow its elements to be mutated and the length changed, or it may be fixed (after creation) ...

, sequence of alphanumeric text or other symbols in computer programming **

String (C++) String or strings may refer to: *String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Strings'' (1991 film), a Canadian anim ...

, a class in the C++ Standard Library ** Strings (Unix), a Unix program for finding character strings in binary files **

C string handling The C programming language has a set of functions implementing operations on strings (character strings and byte strings) in its standard library. Various operations, such as copying, concatenation, tokenization and searching are supported. F ...

, a header in the C standard library **

String literal A string literal or anonymous string is a string value in the source code of a computer program. Modern programming languages commonly use a quoted sequence of characters, formally " bracketed delimiters", as in x = "foo", where "foo" is a string ...

, the notation for representing a string value within the text of a computer program **

Connection string In computing, a connection string is a string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it. It is passed in code to an underlying driver or provider in order to initiate the connection. Whilst commonly used for a ...

, a string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it *

Deployment environment In software deployment, an environment or tier is a computer system or set of systems in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed. In simple cases, such as developing and immediately executing a program on the same ...

, one in a series of computing environments in which new software is deployed, either in sequence or in parallel

Drilling

Casing string In drilling technology, casing string is a long section of connected oilfield pipe that is lowered into a wellbore and cemented. The purpose of the casing pipe is as follows: * prevent the collapse of the borehole * prevent formation fluids from ...

Drill string A drill string on a drilling rig is a column, or string, of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit. The term is loosely applied to the assembled collection ...

* Production string

Medicine

* Brock string, an instrument used in vision therapy *

String galvanometer A string galvanometer is a sensitive fast-responding measuring instrument that uses a single fine filament of wire suspended in a strong magnetic field to measure small currents. In use, a strong light source is used to illuminate the fine filament ...

, an instrument that provided the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG) * String sign, a medical term used in diagnosing hypertrophy pyloric stenosis

Physics

Cosmic string Cosmic strings are hypothetical 1-dimensional topological defects which may have formed during a symmetry-breaking phase transition in the early universe when the topology of the vacuum manifold associated to this symmetry breaking was not simpl ...

, a hypothetical 1-dimensional (spatially) topological defect in various fields * Dirac string, a fictitious one-dimensional curve in space, stretching between two magnetic monopoles * String theory, a popular grand unified theory **

String (physics) In physics, a string is a physical entity postulated in string theory and related subjects. Unlike elementary particles, which are zero-dimensional or point-like by definition, strings are one-dimensional extended entities. Researchers often h ...

, one of the main objects of study in string theory ** Black string is a higher-dimensional (more than 4-dimensional) generalization of a black hole

Other uses in science and technology

Yaw string The yaw string, also known as a slip string, is a simple device for indicating a slip or skid in an aircraft in flight. It performs the same function as the slip-skid indicator ball, but is more sensitive, and does not require the pilot to look ...

, also known as a slip string, a simple device for indicating a slip or skid in an aircraft in flight *

String bog A string bog or string mire is a bog consisting of slightly elevated ridges and islands, with woody plants, alternating with flat, wet sedge mat areas. String bogs occur on slightly sloping surfaces, with the ridges at right angles to the directio ...

, a bog consisting of slightly elevated ridges and islands, with woody plants, alternating with flat, wet sedge mat areas *

String potentiometer A string potentiometer is a transducer used to detect and measure linear position and velocity using a flexible cable and spring-loaded spool. Other common names include "string pot", "cable-extension transducer", "draw wire sensor", and "yo-yo se ...

, a transducer used to detect and measure linear position and velocity using a flexible cable and spring-loaded spool

Sports

* String, a series of consecutive wins in baseball jargon *

Strings (tennis) In tennis, the strings are the part of a tennis racquet which make contact with the ball. The strings form a woven network inside the head (or "hoop") of the racquet. Strings have been made with a variety of materials and possess varying propertie ...

, the part of a tennis racket which makes contact with the ball

Other uses

Pushing on a string Pushing on a string is a figure of speech for influence that is more effective in moving things in one direction than another – you can ''pull,'' but not ''push.'' If something is connected to someone by a string, they can move it toward themse ...

, metaphor *

String of cash coins (currency unit) A string of cash coins (Traditional Chinese: , , ; ) refers to a historical Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ryukyuan, and Vietnamese currency unit that was used as a superunit of the Chinese cash, Japanese mon, Korean mun, Ryukyuan mon, and Vietna ...

, in the Far East * String Lake, a lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States. *

String Publishing Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology. The company pub ...

, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content * String puzzle, any mechanical puzzle whose emphasis is on manipulating one or more pieces of string or rope * String ribbon, ribbon made of string *

String trimmer A string trimmer, also known by the portmanteau strimmer and the trademarks Weedwacker, Weed eater and Whipper Snipper. is a garden tool for cutting grass, small weeds, and groundcover. It uses a whirling monofilament line instead of a blade, ...

, a device for cutting grass and other small plants * Strings, the nickname of the Swedish musician

Robert Dahlqvist Robert Dahlqvist (16 April 1976 – 1 February 2017) was a Swedish guitarist and vocalist best known for his nine-year tenure with the rock band The Hellacopters. He was also the lead singer and lead guitarist for Dundertåget (first known as Th ...