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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1038 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STRING , a See also:

general See also:term for thin See also:cord, or stout See also:thread, a See also:line or cord on which See also:objects are strung. The O. Eng. word is streng, cf. See also:Dan. streng, Ger. See also:Strang, and meant that which is strongly or tightly See also:twisted; it is related to "strong," and is to be referred to the See also:root seen also in See also:Lat. stringere, to draw tight, whence "stringent" and "strict," and in Gr. orparyaXrl, a halter, whence comes " strangle," to choke, throttle. The word is particularly used of the cord of a See also:bow, and of the stretched cords of gut and See also:wire upon a musical See also:instrument, the vibration of which produces the tones (see STRINGED See also:INSTRUMENTS below). In See also:architecture the term " string-course is applied to the projecting course or moulding See also:running horizontally along the See also:face of a See also:building.

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