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The reason why a stretched string is not a line because it's consists of two finite points. Point "A" and Point "B'. While having two points defines a line, a string is only as finite as it's length. A true line is infinite.

If your hand holds a string and stretches it, you've actually made a line segment because it has two end points and does not extend infinitely in either direction (it ends at your fingers or points).

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