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destring

verb

Etymology

From de- + string.

  1. derived from *strengʰ-✻ — “rope, cord, strand; to tighten”
  2. inherited from *strangiz✻ — “string”
  3. inherited from *strangi✻
  4. inherited from strenġ
  5. inherited from string
  6. prefixed as destring — “de + string”

Definitions

  1. To remove hard fibers or strings from.

    • The two men found the three women destringing freshly picked bush beans for the evening meal.
    • I served as an extra pair of hands, occasionally peeling potatoes or destringing celery.

  2. To convert (a variable of string type) to some other, usually numeric data type.

    • I require some help with destringing my variables.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for destring. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA