destring en · VERB
Etymology
From de- + string.
Meanings
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(transitive) To remove hard fibers or strings from.
I served as an extra pair of hands, occasionally peeling potatoes or destringing celery.
The two men found the three women destringing freshly picked bush beans for the evening meal.
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(transitive) To convert (a variable of string type) to some other, usually numeric data type.
I require some help with destringing my variables.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| destringed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| destringed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| destrings | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| destringing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |