Definition of String out

1. Verb. Set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series. "The houses were strung out in a long row"

Exact synonyms: Spread Out
Generic synonyms: Arrange, Set Up

Lexicographical Neighbors of String Out

string bean
string beans
string cheese
string course
string distance
string distances
string ensemble
string hoppers
string instrument
string instruments
string line
string of beads
string of words
string orchestra
string orchestras
string out (current term)
string quartet
string quartets
string quartette
string section
string sedge
string sedges
string someone along
string theoretic
string theories
string theory
string tie
string together
string trimmer
string trimmers

Literary usage of String out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"When feeding they string out in a line, diving successively, one after another until all are down, and returning to the surface with small mussels or fish ..."

2. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1905)
"We then pull the string out a little further, slipping this first knot down as ... Now suppose we start by pulling the string out a short way and then stop; ..."

3. Special Report by the Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners to the by Board of Railroad Commissioners, Massachusetts (1887)
"You would not pull a string out of line and assume it would hold its position, neither should you a piece of iron. Q. Now, be kind enough to return to my ..."

4. The Great Push: An Episode of the Great War by Patrick MacGill (1916)
"But it didn't; I 'adn't pulled the string out far enough. "And that's Loos," he went on, standing on the fire-step and looking up the road. ..."

5. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1905)
"If pricked by a pin or tooth-pick, it will be found ropy, and will draw or string out a half inch or so. If the cell has been capped, the capping recedes ..."

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