Text vs. String — What's the Difference?

A book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form

Material made of drawn-out, twisted fiber, used for fastening, tying, or lacing.

The main body of a book or other piece of writing, as distinct from other material such as notes, appendices, and illustrations

A strand or cord of such material.

A written work chosen or set as a subject of study

A cord stretched on an instrument and struck, plucked, or bowed to produce tones.

A text message

Strings The section of a band or orchestra composed of stringed instruments, especially violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.

Fine, large handwriting, used especially for manuscripts.

Strings Stringed instruments or their players considered as a group.

Send (someone) a text message

Something resembling a string or appearing as a long, thin line

The original words of something written or printed, as opposed to a paraphrase, translation, revision, or condensation.

A plant fiber.

The words of a speech appearing in print.

(Physics) One of the extremely minute objects that form the basis of string theory.

Words, as of a libretto, that are set to music in a composition.

A set of objects threaded together or attached on a string

Words treated as data by a computer.

A number of objects arranged in a line

A text message.

(Computers) A set of consecutive characters.

The body of a printed work as distinct from headings and illustrative matter on a page or from front and back matter in a book.

A series of similar or related acts, events, or items

One of the editions or forms of a written work

A set of animals, especially racehorses, belonging to a single owner; a stable.

Something, such as a literary work or other cultural product, regarded as an object of critical analysis.

A scattered group of businesses under a single ownership or management

A passage from the Scriptures or another authoritative source chosen for the subject of a discourse or cited for support in argument.

A group of players ranked according to ability within a team

A passage from a written work used as the starting point of a discussion.

A complete game consisting of ten frames in bowling.

A subject; a topic.

A stringboard.

A textbook.

A stringcourse.

To send a text message to

(Games) The balk line in billiards.

To communicate by text message

(Informal) A limiting or hidden condition. Often used in the plural

To key or send text messages

To fit or furnish with strings or a string

A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.

To stretch out or extend

A book, tome or other set of writings.

To thread on a string

(colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

To arrange in a line or series

(computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.

To fasten, tie, or hang with a string or strings

A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.

To strip (vegetables) of fibers.

(by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.

To extend or progress in a string, line, or succession

(printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.

(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

(transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.

(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.

(intransitive) To send and receive text messages.

(countable) A thread

(dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.

A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.

(musical instrument) A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.

The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.

(sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.

A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.

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.

Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.

(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.

A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.

(countable) A series of items or events.

That part of a document (printed or electronic) comprising the words, especially the main body of expository words, in contrast to the illustrations, pictures, charts, tables, or other formatted material which contain graphic elements as a major component.

(countable) 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.

Any communication composed of words.

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

A textbook.

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

To write in large characters, as in text hand.

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

The words of something written;

A stringed instrument.

A passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon;

The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.

A book prepared for use in schools or colleges;

The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.

The main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.);

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

(slang) Cannabis or marijuana.

(billiards) 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.

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.

(archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.

(archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

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

(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.

(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

(architecture) A stringcourse.

A hoax; a fake story.

Synonym of stable

(oil drilling) A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.

(transitive) To put (items) on a string.

(transitive) To put strings on (something).

(intransitive) 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.

(birdwatching) 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.

A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.

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 succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.

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

The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.

The line or cord of a bow.

A fiber, 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 pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.

A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

Same as Stringcourse.

The points made in a game.

In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.

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; - called also string line.

A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.

A sequence of similar objects or events sufficiently close in time or space to be perceived as a group; a string of accidents; a string of restaurants on a highway.

A one-dimensional string-like mathematical object used as a means of representing the properties of fundamental particles in string theory, one theory of particle physics; such hypothetical objects are one-dimensional and very small (10-33 cm) but exist in more than four spatial dimensions, and have various modes of vibration. Considering particles as strings avoids some of the problems of treating particles as points, and allows a unified treatment of gravity along with the other three forces (electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force) in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics. See also string theory.

To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.

To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.

To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.

To make tense; to strengthen.

To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung him along all day until he realized we were kidding.

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

A lightweight cord

Stringed instruments that are played with a bow;

A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed

A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding;

A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)

A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening;

A collection of objects threaded on a single strand

A necklace made by a stringing objects together;

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;