Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

substring

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English

Syllables: sub-string
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.

verb

To extract a substring from.

Transitive verb

verb

To take as a substring.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on"."
"If an existing character-based column is increased in size and your program does not need the extra characters, the view can be changed to force the smaller size by substringing the existing column."
"In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English string English substring From sub- + string.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

substrings (plural) substrings (present, singular) substringing (participle, present) substringed (participle, past) substringed (past)

Questions

What does substring mean?: A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
Where does substring come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English string English substring From sub- + string.

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