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 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'' (2015 film), an American drama film originally titled ''Strings'' * ''

The String ''The String'' (french: Le Fil) is a 2009 French film with French and Arabic dialogue, directed by Mehdi Ben Attia and made in Belgium and Tunisia. It stars Claudia Cardinale, Antonin Stahly and Salim Kechiouche. Notably, much of the film was s ...

'' (2009), a French film

Music

Instruments

String (music) A string is the Vibrating string, 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 ...

, 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 * String piano, 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, 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 violinist ...

, 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) Thai pop or T-pop, is a genre of Thai music roughly equivalent to western pop. It emerged in the 1970s–80s, during which it was known as string music ( th, เพลงสตริง), before gaining mainstream popularity during the 1990s and ...

, 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), Rafiq ...

, a pop rock band from Pakistan * String Sisters, band

Recordings

* ''Strings'' (EP), an EP by Kristin Hersh * ''Strings'' (Strings album), the debut album by Strings *''

Strings! ''Strings!'' is the second album by guitarist Pat Martino recorded in 1967 and released on the Prestige label.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 L ...

'', 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, w ...

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

Fashion

* String bikini * Thong, 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 varieties * String bean, a name for several different varieties of bean * String cheese, a common name for several different types of cheese *

String hopper Idiyappam ( ta, இடியப்பம்/இடியாப்பம், Malayalam: ഇടിയപ്പം), also known as string hopper, ''indiappa'' ( Sinhala: ඉඳිආප්ප), ''noolputtu'' ( ta, நூல்புட்டு, M ...

, a rice noodle dish

Mathematics

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

String group In topology, a branch of mathematics, a string group is an infinite-dimensional group \operatorname(n) introduced by as a 3-connected cover of a spin group. A string manifold is a manifold with a lifting of its frame bundle to a string group bundl ...

, in group theory

Science and technology

Bioinformatics

* STRING (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++), a class in the C++ Standard Library **

Strings (Unix) In computer software, strings is a program in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems that finds and prints text strings embedded in binary files such as executables. It can be used on object files and core dumps. Overview Stri ...

, a Unix program for finding character strings in binary files ** C string handling, a header in the C standard library ** String literal, 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, 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 collecti ...

Production string The production string is a part of an oil well that is composed of the production tubing and other completion components and serves as the conduit through which the production fluid flows from the oil reservoir to the surface through the wellhead ...

Medicine

Brock string A Brock string (named after Frederick W. Brock) is an instrument used in vision therapy. It consists of a white string of approximately 10 feet in length with three small wooden beads of different colors. The Brock string is commonly employed du ...

, an instrument used in vision therapy * String galvanometer, an instrument that provided the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG) *

String sign String sign, or gastrointestinal string sign (also called string sign of Kantour), is a medical term for a radiographic finding on an upper GI series, in which the patient is given a radio-opaque material, such as barium, to drink. X-rays are the ...

, a medical term used in diagnosing hypertrophy pyloric stenosis

Physics

* Cosmic string, a hypothetical 1-dimensional (spatially) topological defect in various fields *

Dirac string In physics, a Dirac string is a one-dimensional curve in space, conceived of by the physicist Paul Dirac, stretching between two hypothetical Dirac monopoles with opposite magnetic charges, or from one magnetic monopole out to infinity. The gaug ...

, a fictitious one-dimensional curve in space, stretching between two magnetic monopoles *

String theory In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and intera ...

, a popular grand unified theory ** String (physics), 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, 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 direction ...

, a bog consisting of slightly elevated ridges and islands, with woody plants, alternating with flat, wet sedge mat areas * String potentiometer, 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), the part of a tennis racket which makes contact with the ball

Other uses

* Pushing on a string, 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 ...

, in the Far East *

String Lake String Lake is located in Grand Teton National Park, in the U. S. state of Wyoming. The natural lake is located at the outflow of Leigh Lake. A small wetland area is on the northwest side of the lake and is prime moose The moose (in North ...

, a lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States. * String Publishing, 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 device for cutting grass and other small plants * Strings, the nickname of the Swedish musician Robert Dahlqvist