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| 33% | 6 | Twine for cat’s-cradle, a puppet or a yo-yo, for example; or, one of several figurative cords attached to one’s metaphorical bow when one is said to have a wide range of resources | ||||||
noun • a lightweight cord • stringed instruments that are played with a bow • a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket • a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding • a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.) • a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening • a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod) • (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop • a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand • a necklace made by stringing objects together verb • thread on or as if on a string • add as if on a string • move or come along • stretch out or arrange like a string • string together; tie or fasten with a string • remove the stringy parts of • provide with strings | ||||||||
| 29% | 7 | Metaphorical description in ancient poetry | ||||||
noun • conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry | ||||||||
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