destring

present singular third person destrings · participle present destringing · participle past destringed · past destringed

1. transitiveTo remove hard fibers or strings from.

   I served as an extra pair of hands, occasionally peeling potatoes or destringing celery.

   1 more example

   The two men found the three women destringing freshly picked bush beans for the evening meal.

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

   I require some help with destringing my variables.

   Synonyms: destringify · Antonyms: stringify