stringing
SaySTRING-ing/ˈstɹɪŋɪŋ/
Noun pluralstringings
Pluralstringings
- 1Present participle and gerund of string. Use this form for an action happening now or as the name of the action itself.
She is stringing beads onto a thin cord.
He kept stringing lights along the fence until dark.
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- 2The act of putting strings onto something, such as a guitar or a racket.
Like threading new laces through a pair of shoes.
The stringing on her racket needed to be replaced.
Good stringing keeps a guitar sounding clear.
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- 3Thin threads of plastic left on a 3D print where they should not be.
Like the thin threads of melted cheese that hang from a hot pizza slice.
The print came out covered in stringing between the towers.
Lowering the temperature helped reduce the stringing on my models.
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stringing is a form of string
string, verb: To put things onto a string, one after another. Full entry
- Spelling
- string → stringing: add -ing
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