What's the difference between cannabis and string?

Cannabis


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the US where laws over the use of cannabis or possession of class-A drugs can be wildly different between states, it also made it easier to hide from the law.
  • (2) In Norway, the use of cannabis was introduced by a resourceful group of oppositional middle-class adolescents in the late 1960s.
  • (3) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
  • (4) The effects were assessed of delta'THC (the psychoactive component of cannabis) and CBD and DMHP-CBD (the non-psychomimetic components of marijuana derivatives) on 14C labelled serotonin release from normal platelets, when incubated with patient's plasma obtained during migraine attack.
  • (5) Say Why To Drugs – the highs and lows of cannabis Read more One option the scientists propose is to boost levels of CBD in high potency cannabis, so that users can get their hit without being at such risk of mental harm.
  • (6) In another example, Colorado legislators this month had to pass a new state law to allow for a cannabis co-operative credit union that would let marijuana businesses open bank accounts and escape the murky world of cash-only transactions.
  • (7) The popular concept of "marihuana" is actually based on the chemical characteristics of the plant Cannabis, rather than on the taxonomic classification.
  • (8) The Police Foundation report said that the penalties for possession of cannabis - among the harshest in Europe - do more damage than the drug itself and called for a reclassification of drug offences.
  • (9) Professor David Nutt, director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit at Imperial College, London, and former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs , said the report provided strong evidence "that the costs of the current punitive approaches to cannabis control are massively disproportionate to the harms of the drug, and shows that more sensible approaches would provide significant financial benefits to the UK as well as reducing social exclusion and injustice".
  • (10) The report claims 30,000 people in the UK use cannabis as a medicine, but adds that the figure could be as high as 1 million, according to the campaign group End Our Pain .
  • (11) Uruguay is trying to bring the cannabis market under state control by undercutting and outlawing the traffickers.
  • (12) The move has been interpreted as a shift towards the effective decriminalisation of cannabis.
  • (13) After fronting a piece on a medical marijuana club , she told viewers : “I – the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club – will be dedicating all of my energy for fighting for freedom and fairness, which begins with legalising marijuana here in Alaska.
  • (14) THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is the main psychoactive ingredient of the cannabis plant.
  • (15) There is a growing body of research that shows the medical properties of chemical components of cannabis.
  • (16) They cause an effect similar in some ways to cannabis – but are many times more potent, and the effects are hugely unpredictable.
  • (17) The reports regarding cannabis dependence among cocaine dependents are few and inconclusive.
  • (18) Breathes has been smoking cannabis for more than half his life, but he has no nostalgia for the old days, no regrets about the industry becoming commercialised.
  • (19) Last week the local paper carried stories about a former teacher charged with running a prostitution ring and a house exposed as a major cannabis farm.
  • (20) At the meeting Hogg confirmed rumours that Durham police were no longer actively working to detect small-scale cannabis growers and users, said John Holiday, a local activist.

String


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The line or cord of a bow.
  • (n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
  • (n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
  • (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
  • (n.) Same as Stringcourse.
  • (n.) The points made in a game.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
  • (v. t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
  • (v. t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
  • (v. t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (2) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
  • (3) However, because my film was dominated by a piano, I didn't want the driving-strings sound he'd used for Greenaway.
  • (4) The British financial services industry spent £92m last year lobbying ­politicians and regulators in an "economic war of attrition" that has secured a string of policy victories.
  • (5) However, while he considers the stock undervalued, the hedge fund boss said the software firm had missed a string of opportunities under Ballmer's "Charlie Brown management", referring to the hapless star of the Peanuts cartoon strip.
  • (6) Ranged around the continents are pictures of every child in the class, with a coloured string leading to their country of origin.
  • (7) It is one of six banks involved in talks with the Financial Conduct Authority over alleged rigging in currency markets and Ross McEwan, marking a year as RBS boss, also pointed to a string of other risks in a third quarter trading update.
  • (8) Postoperative urodynamic studies have shown maximum capacity of 750 ml and the area of continence to be at the ileocecal valve where the purse-string sutures are placed.
  • (9) Five patients (1.8%) who inadvertently removed their gastrostomy tube within seven days of insertion were treated with immediate replacement using the retrograde string technique, avoiding laparotomy.
  • (10) The molecule exhibits the conformation of a flexible string-of-beads in solution.
  • (11) He's broken limbs, nearly lost fingers and contracted a potentially deadly bone-marrow infection, as well as performing a string of excellent comedy shows retelling his exploits.
  • (12) Target discrimination accuracy was inversely related to the phonological complexity of strings containing targets in Experiment 3, supposedly because lexical access through which target discrimination is enhanced becomes more difficult as phonological complexity increases.
  • (13) The technique involves the use of an extra-long sheath for filter placement and the application of a purse-string suture at the venipuncture site to facilitate hemostasis.
  • (14) It said the survey backed up a string of votes across the organisation’s regional and national committees in favour of continued membership.
  • (15) Subsequently, asymptomatic giardiasis was sought but not found by either the string test or stool exam in any of 15 patients with pancreatic insufficiency who were examined in a prospective manner.
  • (16) Noticeably, however, the Lib Dem leader echoed the Tories in saying Labour had “a sort of secret plan” to let the Scottish National party pull the strings after the election.
  • (17) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
  • (18) Since then, a string of allegations have surfaced that have cast doubt on the notion that phone tapping at the paper was down to one rogue reporter, Clive Goodman, acting alone.
  • (19) Mann describes herself as a "feral child", running naked with dogs or riding her horse with only a string through its mouth.
  • (20) Mike Griffiths, headteacher at Northampton School for Boys, the first high-performing school to become an academy after Gove became secretary of state for education in May 2010, said the issue would not only have a potentially disastrous effect on pupils who failed to get a necessary C grade in English, but also on those hoping to study at elite institutions who fell short of getting As or A*s. "If you are applying to a Russell Group university, for instance, to study medicine or law, and all the applicants have a string of A*s, they will look back to the GCSEs and see a B in English – and that could decide your fate," he said.