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

Places

String Lake, a lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States.

People

Strings, the nickname of the Swedish musician Robert Dahlqvist

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

Groups

String band, musical ensemble composed mostly or entirely of string instruments, common in bluegrass, jazz, and country music
Strings (band), a pop rock band from Pakistan
String Sisters, band

Genres

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

Instruments and types of groups

String (music), the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments
String instrument, a musical instrument that produces sound through vibrating strings
- List of string instruments
String orchestra, orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family
String piano, a pianistic extended technique in which sound is produced by direct manipulation of the strings, rather than striking the piano's keys
String quartet, 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

Albums and EPs

Strings (EP), an EP by Kristin Hersh
Strings (Strings album), the debut album by Strings
Strings!, a 1967 album by jazz guitarist Pat Martino

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! Japanese manga
Silly String, a child's toy, also known as aerosol string
"String Theory", a season 4 episode of The Shield

Drilling

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, 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 computing

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), sequence of alphanumeric text or other symbols in computer programming
- 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
- String (C++), a class in the C++ Standard Library
- Strings (Unix), a Unix program for finding character strings in binary files
Connection string, a string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it

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, 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

Sports

String, a series of consecutive wins in baseball jargon
Strings (tennis), the part of a tennis racket which makes contact with the ball

Transport and navigation

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

Other uses

Pushing on a string, metaphor
String bog
String potentiometer, a transducer used to detect and measure linear position and velocity using a flexible cable and spring-loaded spool
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

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