destring
English
Etymology
de- + string
Verb
destring (third-person singular simple present destrings, present participle destringing, simple past and past participle destringed)
- (transitive) to remove hard fibers or strings from something soft
- 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.
- (computing, transitive) to convert a variable that is of a string type to some other, usually numeric data type
- I require some help with destringing my variables.
Anagrams
- grindest, stringed