string out

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• string out — ► string out prolong. Main Entry: ↑string …   English terms dictionary

• string out — index dispel, protract (stall) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• string out — verb set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series (Freq. 1) the houses were strung out in a long row • Syn: ↑spread out • Hypernyms: ↑arrange, ↑set up • Verb Frames …   Useful english dictionary

• string out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms string out : present tense I/you/we/they string out he/she/it strings out present participle stringing out past tense strung out past participle strung out 1) [usually passive] to arrange something in a long… …   English dictionary

• string out (something) — 1. to be spread in a long, thin line. Most of Canada s population is strung out along its border with the United States. The early fast pace soon strung the field of runners out over more than a mile. 2. to make something continue. Zeb hoped he… …   New idioms dictionary

• string out — Synonyms and related words: align, array, bank, chatter, continue, drag out, draw, draw out, elongate, extend, fill out, lengthen, lengthen out, let out, line, line up, never finish, pad, perorate, produce, prolong, prolongate, protract, pull,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• string out — 1) stringing out a story Syn: spin out, drag out, lengthen 2) airfields strung out along the Gulf Syn: spread out, space out, distribute, scatter …   Thesaurus of popular words

• string out — {v.} To make (something) extend over a great distance or a long stretch of time. * /The telephone poles were strung out along the road as far as we could see./ * /Mary and Ann did not have much to say but they did not want to go home. They strung …   Dictionary of American idioms

• string out — {v.} To make (something) extend over a great distance or a long stretch of time. * /The telephone poles were strung out along the road as far as we could see./ * /Mary and Ann did not have much to say but they did not want to go home. They strung …   Dictionary of American idioms

• string\ out — v To make (smth) extend over a great distance or a long stretch of time. The telephone poles were strung out along the road as far as we could see. Mary and Ann did not have much to say but they did not want to go home. they strung out their… …   Словарь американских идиом

• string out — v. draw out; extend; prolong; spread out, stretch in a line or series (as houses in a long row) …   English contemporary dictionary