Composed of, or resembling, string or strings. / (of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue. / (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.

A person who plays second string. A person who is kept on a sports team as a backup in case a "first-string" player is unavailable.

plural of stringency

A rigorous imposition of standards. / A tightness or constriction. / A scarcity of money or credit.

(transitive, programming) To convert to a textual representation.

The state or quality of being stringy.

Alternative spelling of firststringer

(music) A passage in music to be played gradually faster; a section of music with in which the tempo slowly increases.

(music) Played with gradually increasing tempo.

simple past tense and past participle of stringify