destring
verbEtymology From de- + string.
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
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To convert (a variable of string type) to some other, usually numeric data type.
- I require some help with destringing my variables.