str
US/ˈstɚ/
str is the abbreviation of string(s).
str is the abbreviation of steamer.
str is the abbreviation of string.
str is the abbreviation of strain.
str is the abbreviation of strength.
str is the abbreviation of stremma(ta).
Meaning of steamer
Noun
steamer (plural steamers)
- A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing and in various processes of manufacture.
- A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
- A steam fire engine, that is, a steam boiler and engine driving a pump, which are all mounted on wheels.
- A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
- A vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship.
- Her gunboat fleet alone is composed of one hundred and sixty-one small steamers, of the efficiency of which for war purports naval critics have formed a high estimate.1859 January 6, “English and Amer[i]can navies”, in The Olney Times (reprinted from the New York Herald), volume 3, number 27 (number 130 overall), Olney, Ill.: William F. Beck, →OCLC, page 1, column...
- A babycino (frothy milk drink).
Meaning of string
Noun
string (countable and uncountable, plural strings)
- A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- She bought cotton thread to use to make string.
- Control; influence.
- I always know what position he'll take because the Chairwoman of the Board has her string on him.
- The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- The deal sounds good, but what are the strings?
- A controlling inner sense, emotion, memory, etc.
- tug on the heart strings
- Control over the basketball in a game; the state of being in sync as a team, as if connected by a string.
- You have to get the ball on an absolute string.
- Any similar long, thin and flexible material.
- The headdress's frame is made with strings of gold.
Noun capitalized: STR
STR (countable and uncountable, plural STRs)
- Initialism of short tandem repeat.
- These observations lead us to predict that structural genomic variants are as important as SNPs, short tandem repeats (STRs) and other small changes in their contribution to genome variation.2006, Lars Feuk et al., “Structural variation in the human genome”, Nature, 7:85
- We estimated that the following percentage of elements were correctly assembled: 95.4% of alpha satellites; 91.5% of human satellites 2 and 3; 97.7% of segmental duplications (SDs); 94.3% of variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs); 94.2% of short tandem repeats (STRs); and 98.8% of all human...2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313
- Initialism of suspicious transaction report.
- Initialism of suspend to RAM.
- Initialism of strength point.
- Initialism of sell-through rate.
Forms of str
| plural | strs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | str. |
| plural | STRs |
Words that rhyme with str
Questions about str
- What is str the abbreviation of?
- Str is the abbreviation of string(s).
- What part of speech is str?
- Str is a noun.
- How do you pronounce str?
- Str is pronounced /ˈstɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of str?
- The plural of str is strs.
Words near str in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: str (page history and authors); STR (page history and authors); steamer (page history and authors); string (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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