string

ficelle, cordon

Corde fine et souple qui sert à attacher des choses ou à les maintenir ensemble.

En anglais simple : A thin, flexible cord used to tie or hold things together.

• Tie the bag with string.
• He cut a piece of string for the parcel.
• Have you got any string in that drawer?

Synonymes : cord, twine

Expressions courantes : piece of string, ball of string, tie with string

corde, fil

Élément long, fin et souple, comme une corde d’instrument de musique.

En anglais simple : A long, thin, flexible piece of material, such as a wire on a musical instrument.

• One guitar string broke.
• She tightened the strings before playing the violin.
• Pluck this string and listen to the sound.

Synonymes : strand

Expressions courantes : guitar string, violin string, broken string, pluck a string

série, succession

Plusieurs événements ou actions qui se produisent les uns après les autres.

En anglais simple : Several events or actions that happen one after another.

• A string of mistakes cost us the game.
• She enjoyed a long string of successes.
• Police are investigating a string of recent robberies.

Comment l'utiliser : a string of something (The team suffered a string of defeats.)

Synonymes : series, succession, sequence

Expressions courantes : string of successes, string of failures, string of victories, string of accidents

enfilade, chapelet

Plusieurs choses reliées ou disposées les unes à la suite des autres sur une ligne.

En anglais simple : Several things joined or arranged together in a line.

• A string of lights hung above us.
• He bought two strings of sausages.
• She kept her grandmother's string of pearls in a box.

Comment l'utiliser : a string of something (She wore a string of blue beads.)

Synonymes : chain, row

Expressions courantes : string of beads, string of pearls, string of lights, string of sausages

chaîne de caractères

Suite de lettres, de chiffres ou d’autres signes écrits qu’un ordinateur traite comme un seul texte.

En anglais simple : A sequence of letters, numbers, or other written signs that a computer treats as one piece of text.

• The program stores your name as a string.
• An empty string contains no characters.
• These two strings have the same length.

Synonymes : character sequence

Expressions courantes : text string, empty string, string length, search string

instrument à cordes

Instrument comme le violon, qui produit des sons avec des cordes tendues, souvent évoqué au sein d’un groupe.

En anglais simple : An instrument such as a violin that makes music with tight cords, often mentioned as part of a group.

• The strings began to play.
• This piece is written for strings and piano.
• The conductor asked the strings to play more quietly.

Synonymes : stringed instrument

Expressions courantes : the strings, strings and brass, solo string

suspendre, tendre

Suspendre ou tendre quelque chose le long d’un endroit ou d’un côté à l’autre, souvent avec une corde.

En anglais simple : To hang or stretch something along or across a place, often using a cord.

• Let's string lights around the window.
• They strung flags across the street.
• Small bells had been strung between the branches.

Comment l'utiliser : string something across something (They strung lights across the courtyard.); string something between A and B (We strung a rope between two trees.)

Synonymes : hang, stretch

Expressions courantes : string up lights, string something across, string something between

enfiler

Faire passer un fil ou une ficelle dans des perles ou d’autres objets.

En anglais simple : To put beads or other objects onto a thin cord or thread.

• Let's string the beads together.
• He strung shells on a thread to make a necklace.
• She is stringing pearls for a bracelet.

Comment l'utiliser : string something on/onto something (She strung colorful beads onto a thin cord.)

Synonymes : thread

Expressions courantes : string beads, string pearls, string something together