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Webster 1913 Edition
Stringy
String′y
,Adj.
1.
Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous;
as, a
. stringy
root2.
Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
Stringy bark
(Bot.)
, a name given in Australia to several trees of the genus
Eucalyptus
(as Eucalyptus amygdalina
, Eucalyptus obliqua
, Eucalyptus capitellata
, Eucalyptus macrorhyncha
, Eucalyptus piperita
, Eucalyptus pilularis
, and Eucalyptus tetradonta
), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.Webster 1828 Edition
Stringy
STRINGY
,Adj.
1.
Consisting of strings or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as a stringy root.2.
Ropy; viscid; gluey; that may be drawn into a thread.Definition 2024
stringy
stringy
English
Adjective
stringy (comparative stringier, superlative stringiest)
- Comprised of, or resembling, string or strings.
- The meat was quite stringy.
- (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter I:
- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter I:
- (programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.
- 2011, Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix, Learning Perl (page 56)
- The context refers to how you use an expression. You've actually already seen some contextual operations with numbers and strings. When you do numbery sorts of things, you get numeric results. When you do stringy sorts of things, you get string results.
- 2011, Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix, Learning Perl (page 56)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
resembling strings
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