Meaning

• A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.

  "There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables."

• (metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.

• A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.

• An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.

• A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.

Meaning

• A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

• Such a structure considered as a substance.

• Any similar long, thin and flexible object.

  "a bowstring"

• A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.

  "a string of sausages"

• A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.

  "The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive"

• A series of items or events.

  "a string of successes"

• The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.

• In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.

• A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.

• An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.

• A stringed instrument.

• (usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.

• (in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.

  "no strings attached"

• The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.

• Cannabis or marijuana.

• Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.

• The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.

• (by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.

• The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.

• A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

• A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.

• A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

• An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

• The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.

  "the strings of beans"

• A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

• A stringcourse.

• A hoax; a fake story.

Meaning

• To put (items) on a string.

  "You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace."

• To put strings on (something).

  "It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly."

• To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.

• To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.

• To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.