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I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.
Apolo Ohno

Meaning of "stringy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STRINGY

stringy  [ˈstrɪŋɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STRINGY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stringy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES STRINGY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of stringy in the English dictionary

The first definition of stringy in the dictionary is made of strings or resembling strings. Other definition of stringy is fibrous. Stringy is also wiry; sinewy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STRINGY


clingy
ˈklɪŋɪ
dinghy
ˈdɪŋɪ
lingy
ˈlɪŋɪ
puddingy
ˈpʊdɪŋɪ
shilingi
ˈʃɪlɪŋɪ
springy
ˈsprɪŋɪ
swingy
ˈswɪŋɪ
thingy
ˈθɪŋɪ
wingy
ˈwɪŋɪ
zingy
ˈzɪŋɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STRINGY

string-pulling
stringboard
stringed
stringed instrument
stringency
stringendo
stringent
stringently
stringentness
stringer
stringhalt
stringier
stringiest
stringily
stringiness
stringless
stringlike
stringpiece
strings
stringy-bark

WORDS THAT END LIKE STRINGY

bungy
dingy
dungy
fringy
grungy
gungy
loungy
lozengy
mangy
mingy
orangy
pongy
rangy
scroungy
singsongy
slangy
spongy
stingy
tangy
twangy

Synonyms and antonyms of stringy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STRINGY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «stringy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of stringy

Translation of «stringy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STRINGY

Find out the translation of stringy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stringy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stringy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fibrosa
570 millions of speakers

English

stringy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रेशेदार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مفتول العضلات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тягучий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pegajoso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অংশুল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

filandreux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bersungguh-sungguh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sehnig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

糸を引く
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

힘줄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stringy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có sợi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முத்துச் சரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तंतू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lifli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

filante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

żylasty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тягучий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stringy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ινώδη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

draderig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

trådiga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trevlet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stringy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STRINGY»

The term «stringy» is regularly used and occupies the 61.235 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stringy

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2 QUOTES WITH «STRINGY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word stringy.
1
Apolo Ohno
I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.
2
Helen Slater
I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRINGY»

Discover the use of stringy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stringy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Orbifolds and Stringy Topology
The heart of this book, however, is a detailed description of the Chen-Ruan cohomology, which introduces a product for orbifolds and has had significant impact.
Alejandro Adem, Johann Leida, Yongbin Ruan, 2007
2
Boys' Life
laughing fit to kill. I didn't suppose she said we would bring it back for Uncle to JT happened all right. One side dipped could laugh, but she did, that time. put on again when we got through with 1 down into the water and the thing went Stringy  ...
3
Elliptic Integrable Systems: A Comprehensive Geometric ...
Let (N, F) be an f-manifold with V a linear connection. Then we will say that a map f: L —> N from a Riemann surface into N is *stringy harmonic if it is solution of the modified stringy harmonic maps equation: _Tg(f) JP (F*T)g(f) : 0PROPOSITION ...
Idrisse Khemar, 2012
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Real and Complex Singularities: São Carlos Workshop 2004
By the Poincar ́e-Hopf theorem, therefore, the degree of this class recovers the stringy Euler characteristic of X in this case. This in fact holds for any X for which the stringy Euler characteristic is defined, justifying the following: Definition 5.1.
Jean-Paul Brasselet, Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas, 2007
5
Little Book of Trees
There's the whitebox and pine on the ridges afar, Where the iron-bark, blue-gum, and peppermint are; There is many another, but dearest to me, And the king of them all was the stringy-bark tree. Then of stringy-bark slabs were the walls of the  ...
‎2010
6
Balsam Fir: A Monographic Review
White stringy butt rot was caused by five fungi with Poria sub- acida, Armillaria mellea, and Odontia bicolor accounting for 30 of the 39 white stringy rots sampled. Twenty-three cultures of brown cubical rot were made. Of this number, Poria ...
E. V. Bakuzis, H. L. Hansen, 1965
7
Collateral Damage: Life as a Mortgage Broker
Stringy grabbed his sets and began to walk toward his car without saying a word. Jason quickly followed. Stringy's car was an ancient rust-colored Ford Pinto with a huge cave-in on the passenger side door. Stringy went to the hatchback and ...
Ralph J. Migliozzi, 2011
8
Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 1 - 1908
Austràlia. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics. and stringy-bark prevail, with grey and yellow box and ironbark on the low country. In Delatite, and in the lower ranges of the Australian Alps generally, the timber increases in height ...
Austràlia. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics
9
Habitat Distribution of Aquatic Oribatid Mites (Arthropoda: ...
... SC RBP-MS-4-1 1 3 hearty stringy algae on cobbles in current RBP-MS-4-2 1 3 hearty stringy algae on cobbles in current RBP-MS-4-3 1 3 hearty stringy algae on cobbles in current RBP-MS-4-4 1 3 hearty stringy algae on cobbles in current  ...
Richard Booth Platt (Jr), 2006
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Poems
The pigs and geese were in the hut, the hen on the table flew, And she laid an egg in the old tin plate for the stringy-bark cockatoo. Chorus: Oh, the stringy-bark, &c. For breakfast we had pollard, boys, it tasted like cobbler's paste. To help it ...
Andrew Barton Paterson

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRINGY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stringy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Here's a new stringy track from Dean Blunt called 'the ether'
It's an instrumental morsel called 'the ether': a relentless loop of rich strings with clusters of piano melody chucked in atop a basic beat, which then morphs into ... «The 405, Jul 15»
2
10 Everyday Objects You Never Knew the Names For
10 Everyday Objects You Never Knew the Names For. We bet you don't know what the stringy things on a banana are called. Share · Tweet · Pin · E-mail. «Womans Day, Jul 15»
3
Littleton's Stringy Ervin named national coach of the year
Stringy Ervin poses with his 1931 Chevy Coach at his home. Ervin, 46-year Littleton High School swim coach, retired and was photographed on June 11, 2014. «The Denver Post, Jan 15»
4
Man with fake beard robs White Rock bank
Police say he was wearing a fake brown stringy beard for disguise when he approached the teller. He demanded money and said he had a firearm, although a ... «Vancity Buzz, Jan 15»
5
Littleton's Ervin named national girls swim coach of the year
Included is Littleton's Maurice "Stringy" Ervin, who was named 2014 NFHS national girls swimming and diving coach of the year. The NFHS, which has been ... «CHSAA Now, Jan 15»
6
Ingredia seeks to patent method for stringy-when-cooked …
French dairy ingredients firm Ingredia has applied to patent a method to produce a spreadable cheese product that becomes stringy when cooked. «DairyReporter.com, Dec 14»
7
Stringy fields may make the universe swell faster
DARK energy, the mysterious force thought to be responsible for the fact the universe's expansion is accelerating, might come from a series of exotic fields. «New Scientist, Sep 14»
8
Colorado Classics: Maurice "Stringy" Ervin
Recently retired Stringy Ervin, at home with his 1931 Chevy Coach, coached 36 individual state champ- ions in swimming. "I never swam competitively a day in ... «The Denver Post, Jun 14»
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Littleton High School coach "Stringy" Ervin retiring after 49 years
Maurice "Stringy" Ervin never cut anyone from the teams he coached at Littleton High School. "I felt like the ones who would be cut were cut all their lives and ... «The Denver Post, May 14»
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There Are Actually Rules For How You Should Melt Cheese
And then there are cheeses like mozzarella that turn into a stringy mess when melted -- making pizza into the meal we love so much. But when you come across ... «Huffington Post, Apr 14»

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