Cracker vs. String
Crackernoun
A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
Crackernoun
A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
Crackernoun
A firecracker.
Crackernoun
A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
Crackernoun
The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.
Crackernoun
A Christmas cracker.
Crackernoun
Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
Crackernoun
A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
Crackernoun
An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
Crackernoun
(computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
Crackernoun
(obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
Crackernoun
An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.
Crackernoun
A police officer.
Crackernoun
A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
Crackernoun
(obsolete) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Crackernoun
One who, or that which, cracks.
Crackernoun
A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
Crackernoun
A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; - usually called firecracker.
Crackernoun
A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
Crackernoun
A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
Crackernoun
The pintail duck.
Crackernoun
A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Crackernoun
a thin crisp wafer made or flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
Crackernoun
a poor white person in the southern United States
Crackernoun
a programmer who `cracks' (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things;
Crackernoun
firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
Crackernoun
a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
Crackernoun
a person or thing that cracks.
Crackernoun
an installation for cracking hydrocarbons
Crackernoun
a person who breaks into a computer system, typically for an illegal purpose.
Crackernoun
a decorated paper cylinder which, when pulled apart, makes a sharp noise and releases a small toy or other novelty
Crackernoun
a firework that explodes with a sharp noise.
Crackernoun
a thin dry biscuit, typically eaten with cheese
Crackernoun
a light crisp made of rice or tapioca flour
Crackernoun
a fine example of something
Crackernoun
an attractive person, especially a woman
Crackernoun
another term for poor white
Stringnoun
(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
Stringnoun
(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
Stringnoun
(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
Stringnoun
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.
Stringnoun
(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
Stringnoun
(countable) A series of items or events.
Stringnoun
(countable) 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.
Stringnoun
(countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
Stringnoun
A group of racehorses kept at one track.
Stringnoun
An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
Stringnoun
A stringed instrument.
Stringnoun
The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
Stringnoun
(in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
Stringnoun
The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
Stringnoun
(slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
Stringnoun
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.
Stringnoun
The points made in a game of billiards.
Stringnoun
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.
Stringnoun
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
Stringnoun
(archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
Stringnoun
(archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
Stringnoun
(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
Stringnoun
(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
Stringnoun
(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
Stringnoun
(architecture) A stringcourse.
Stringnoun
A hoax; a fake story.
Stringverb
(transitive) To put (items) on a string.
Stringverb
(transitive) To put strings on (something).
Stringverb
(intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
Stringnoun
A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
Stringnoun
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 succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
Stringnoun
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
Stringnoun
The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
Stringnoun
The line or cord of a bow.
Stringnoun
A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
Stringnoun
A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
Stringnoun
An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
Stringnoun
The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
Stringnoun
A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
Stringnoun
Same as Stringcourse.
Stringnoun
The points made in a game.
Stringnoun
In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
Stringnoun
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; - called also string line.
Stringnoun
A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
Stringnoun
a sequence of similar objects or events sufficiently close in time or space to be perceived as a group; a string of accidents; a string of restaurants on a highway.
Stringnoun
A one-dimensional string-like mathematical object used as a means of representing the properties of fundamental particles in string theory, one theory of particle physics; such hypothetical objects are one-dimensional and very small (10-33 cm) but exist in more than four spatial dimensions, and have various modes of vibration. Considering particles as strings avoids some of the problems of treating particles as points, and allows a unified treatment of gravity along with the other three forces (electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force) in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics. See also string theory.
Stringverb
To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
Stringverb
To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
Stringverb
To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
Stringverb
To make tense; to strengthen.
Stringverb
To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
Stringverb
To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung him along all day until he realized we were kidding.
Stringverb
To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
Stringnoun
a lightweight cord
Stringnoun
stringed instruments that are played with a bow;
Stringnoun
a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
Stringnoun
a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding;
Stringnoun
a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
Stringnoun
a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening;
Stringnoun
a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
Stringnoun
a necklace made by a stringing objects together;
Stringverb
thread on or as if on a string;
Stringverb
add as if on a string;
Stringverb
move or come along
Stringverb
stretch out or arrange like a string
Stringverb
string together; tie or fasten with a string;
Stringverb
remove the stringy parts of;
Stringverb
provide with strings;
