String or strings may refer to: *

String (structure) String is a long flexible tool 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 make thin ...

, 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'' (2009), a French film

Music

Instruments

* String (music), the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments *

String instrument In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners. Musicians play some ...

, 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 a ...

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

String quartet The term string quartet refers 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 Violin, violini ...

, musical ensemble of four string players, common in chamber music ensembles *

String section The string section of an orchestra is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family. It normally consists of first and second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. It is the most numerous group in the standard orchestra. In ...

("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), Rafiq W ...

, a pop rock band from Pakistan *

Strings (rapper) Marinna Teal (born November 25, 1975), better known as Strings and Tateeze, is an American rapper and songwriter formerly signed to Epic and Cash Money Records. She is best known for being featured on R. Kelly's "Gotham City Remix" and Keith S ...

, Marinna Teal (born 1975), American rapper

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 legends, he was ...

'', 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 manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' between September 1996 and March 2004, with its chapters collected in 38 volumes. The ...

'' Japanese manga *

Silly String Silly String (generically known as aerosol string) is a toy of flexible, sometimes brightly colored, plastic String (structure), string propelled as a stream of liquid from an aerosol can. The solvent in the string quickly evaporates in mid-air, ...

, a child's toy, also known as aerosol string

Fashion

String bikini Many stylistic variations of the bikini have been created. 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 desig ...

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

, 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. ''sesquipedali ...

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. ''sesquipedali ...

, 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, making it stringy. When mozzarella is heated to 60 °C (140 °F) and then stretched, the milk proteins line ...

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

Mathematics

* String graph, 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 anim ...

(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 character (computing), characters, either as a literal (computer programming), literal constant or as some kind of Variable (computer science), variable. The latter may allow its el ...

, sequence of alphanumeric text or other symbols in computer programming ** String (C++), a class in the C++ Standard Library ** Strings (Unix), a Unix program for finding character strings in binary files ** C string handling, a header in the C standard library **

String literal string literal or anonymous string is a literal for 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 ...

, the notation for representing a string value within the text of a computer program ** Connection string, 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 A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to Execution (computing), e ...

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

Drilling

* Casing string *

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 Well drilling#Drill bits in mechanical drilling, drill bit. The term ...

* Production string

Medicine

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

Physics

* Cosmic string, 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 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) 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 ha ...

, one of the main objects of study in string theory **

Black string In general relativity, a black brane is a solution of the Einstein field equations that generalizes a black hole solution but it is also extended—and translationally symmetric—in additional spatial dimensions. That type of solution would ...

is a higher-dimensional (more than 4-dimensional) generalization of a black hole ** Strings (conference), series of conferences on string theory *

String vibration A vibration in a string is a wave. Resonance causes a vibrating string to produce a sound with constant frequency, i.e. constant pitch. If the length or tension of the string is correctly adjusted, the sound produced is a musical tone. Vibratin ...

, equations for an ordinary vibrating string

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 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), in the Far East * String Lake, 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 * Marik String, former acting Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State