String is a long, flexible tool made from fibers.

String or strings may also refer to:

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

Genres

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

Performers

  • Strings (band), a pop rock band from Pakistan
  • Strings (rapper), 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, 1994
  • "Strings", by Shawn Mendes from Handwritten, 2015
  • "Strings", by Taemin from Advice, 2021
  • "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! 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, 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 (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins, previously Search Tool for Recurring Instances of Neighbouring Genes), 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
  • 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, 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

Drilling

  • Casing string
  • Drill string
  • 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, 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
  • Strings (conference), series of conferences on string theory
  • String vibration, 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

See also

  • Chain (disambiguation)
  • Heart Strings (disambiguation)
  • Red string (disambiguation)
  • Strine (disambiguation)<!--possible misspelling-->
  • String of pearls (disambiguation)