English English Dictionary

string in English:

1. series

It seems that the policeman in this TV series is a dirty cop who abuses his authority.

Even after seven series of House M.D. he still feels pessimistic about it.

TV series

Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.

Educational autism in the California school system apparently has looser criteria than the DSM-IV's series of autistic disorders.

A piece of railway in use today is therefore the product of a long series of decisions reached on many different grounds, at different times.

Modern harps have a series of pedals that enable the performer to tune the instrument to any diatonic scale.

For example, they do not have to go to a stadium to see the World Series or the Super Bowl because they can enjoy watching the games in their own living rooms.

Her grandfather extrapolated an isolated incident at a grocery store into a series of sweeping, unflattering generalizations about every Mexican on earth.

This autumn I am, unusually, watching many drama series.

When dubbing Japanese TV series in English, characters from Osaka are sometimes given a Texas accent. Both Southern and Kansai accents are distinctive in their respective languages.

The series Bewitched from the 1970s was made into a film in 2005 with Nicole Kidman in the main role.

I like Dr. House series

That popular television series is going to spin off two new shows in the fall.

Bonanza is not about bananas. Or maybe it is. It's a famous western series.

2. string

This string is strong.

Tie the package with string.

The police say there's someone pulling string behind the scenes.

Tom often thinks of Mary when he hears a string quartet.

silly string

All you do is string together a bunch of farfetched ideas. I can't understand a word of it.

Her heart has been hardening all throughout her string of bad hookups.

Not to harp on the same string, I still insist that those who drink should never drive.

Monotony develops when you harp on the same string.

She was lying on the floor, strangled by a harp string.

Officers patrolled the neighborhood for a month after the string of robberies.

An example of a string instrument is a violin.

Hold your strings tight.

I tried to assemble that with a string, but it didn’t work

The townsfolk were convinced that the string of murders was tied to a satanic cult.

3. swept

The servant swept the floor.

Tsunamis swept through rice fields and flooded the towns.

A big wave swept the man off the boat.

Several bridges have been damaged or swept away.

She ordered the room to be swept.

She swept the dirt from the porch.

The manager ordered all the rooms to be swept clean as soon as possible.

He swept his brush across the canvas.

A blast of cold air swept through the house.

I've swept the floor

When the All Blacks came out onto the field a roar like 'woooaahh' swept over the crowd.

A shadow of anxiety swept across her face.

I swept up dead leaves.

I was wasting time, wandering around the garage, when an old truck swept into driveway.

4. a number of similar things or events coming one after another

English word "string"(a number of similar things or events coming one after another) occurs in sets:

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