ər noun
1.
a person or thing that strings.
2.
a long horizontal timber connecting upright posts.
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Civil Engineering. a longitudinal bridge girder for supporting part of a deck or railroad track between bents or piers.
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a longitudinal reinforcement in the fuselage or wing of an airplane.
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Also called string correspondent. Journalism. a part-time newspaper correspondent covering a local area for a paper published elsewhere: The Los Angeles paper has a correspondent in San Francisco but only a stringer in Seattle. Compare staffer ( def 2 ).
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a contestant, player, or other person ranked according to skill or accomplishment (used in combination): Most of the conductors at the opera house were third-stringers.
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Mining. a small vein or seam of ore, coal, etc.
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is always a great word to know.
So is skyscraper. Does it mean:
| the distinctively treated upper end of a column |
| a building of exceptional height completely supported by a framework, as of girders, from which the walls are suspended, as opposed to a building supported by load-bearing walls |
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| —n | |
| 1. | architect |
| a. a long horizontal beam that is used for structural purposes | |
| b. another name for stringboard | |
| 2. | nautical a longitudinal structural brace for strengthening the hull of a vessel |
| 3. | a journalist retained by a newspaper or news service on a part-time basis to cover a particular town or area |
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