Noun

1. The section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments
2. A lightweight cord
3. Stringed instruments that are played with a bow
4. A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
5. A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
6. A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
7. A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
8. A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
9. (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
10. A collection of objects threaded on a single strand
11. A necklace made by a stringing objects together

Verb

1. Thread on or as if on a string
2. Add as if on a string
3. Move or come along
4. Stretch out or arrange like a string
5. String together; tie or fasten with a string
6. Remove the stringy parts of
7. Provide with strings