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Composed of, or resembling, string or strings. / (of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue. / (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.

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stringy

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Source Word

stringy

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈstɹɪŋi/

Adjective

of food of a person informal

Composed of, or resembling, string or strings. / (of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue. / (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.

Japanese Meaning

ひも状の、またはひものような / （食べ物について）弾力性のある、固い部分が多い / （人物について）やせ細っている、やや痩せ細った

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ピザに残ったチーズはとても糸を引くようで、スライスを持ち上げるとテーブルをまたいで伸びた。

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Sense（1）

Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.

Sense（2）

(of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.

The meat was quite stringy.

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Sense（3）

(of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.

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.

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Sense（4）

(programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.

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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