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# stringy

«stringy» in Mova's school dictionary: **full of tough fibres like strings and is hard to chew:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (stringy, stringier, stringiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stringy food is full of tough fibres like strings and is hard to chew: stringy meat, stringy celery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#m1)

2) Stringy hair is thin, hangs in long straight strands and often looks greasy or untidy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#m2)

3) A stringy person is thin with lean, wiry muscles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#m3)

4) Stringy also describes anything that stretches into thin strings, like melted cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it describes food and hair; in stories it helps paint a character's looks. In science, fibres in plants like celery make them stringy. Phrases: "stringy cheese", "stringy hair", "stringy beans".

### examples

- This beef is stringy and hard to chew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x1)
- Pull the stringy bits off the celery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x2)
- The melted cheese on the pizza was all stringy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x3)
- After swimming, my hair was wet and stringy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x4)
- The old farmer was stringy and strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x5)
- Runner beans get stringy if you pick them late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x6)
- Her stringy fringe hung over her eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/#x7)

### note

Comparative: stringier, stringiest. Saying someone's hair is stringy is not polite. "String cheese" is a snack made to peel into strings.

### In the corpora

- [When you cut yourself, platelets and stringy fibres make a net that plugs the cut and hardens into a scab.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/261-human-body-deeper-heart-and-blood/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stringy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stringy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.