string vs uvula

string

noun
  • The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line. 

  • A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet. 

  • The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc. 

  • In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc. 

  • An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity. 

  • A stringed instrument. 

  • The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics. 

  • The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively. 

  • An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. 

  • Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail. 

  • A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument. 

  • A series of items or events. 

  • The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept. 

  • A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged. 

  • A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit. 

  • A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. 

  • A thread 

  • The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants. 

  • The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments. 

  • A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together. 

  • A cohesive substance taking the form of a string. 

  • A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable. 

  • Such a structure considered as a substance. 

  • A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. 

  • Cannabis or marijuana. 

  • The points made in a game of billiards. 

  • A stringcourse. 

  • Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”) 

verb
  • To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. 

  • To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game. 

  • To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species. 

  • To put strings on (something). 

  • To put (items) on a string. 

uvula

noun
  • an object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper 

  • the slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate 

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