stringy

Etymology

From string +‎ -y

Adjective

stringy (comparative stringier, superlative stringiest)

1. Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.

   The meat was quite stringy.

2. (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.

3. (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.

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