ADJ
- taut, tight
- He pulled the string tight
- loose
- tangled
- He had hair like tangled yellow string
QUANT
- bit, length, piece
- I cut a length of string to tie up the package
- ball
VERB + STRING
- knot, tie, tie sth up with
- Tie the string round the parcel
- undo, untie
- wind (up)
- He wound the string into a ball
- unwind
- dangle (sth) on
- Next to the phone, there was a pencil dangling on a string
PREP
- in the ~
- There's a knot in the string
ADJ
- tight
- slack
- open
- stopped
- guitar, violin, etc.
- A, G, etc.
VERB + STRING
- tighten, tune
- loosen
- pluck
- change, replace
- break
PREP
- on a/the ~
- Play it on the G string