Untie vs Unstring - What's the difference?
untie | unstring |
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
* (rfdate), Waller:
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
* Shakespeare, Macbeth , act 4, scene 1:
* (rfdate), Jeremy Taylor:
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
* (rfdate), Denham:
To become untied or loosed.
To remove the string or strings from.
:Unstring the bows before storing them.
To shake the nerves of; to cause anxiety or panic in.
* Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla
* Clifton Johnson, Battleground Adventures
To split (a text string) into smaller strings by separating on a delimiter.
* 1980 , Norman R. Lyons, Structured Cobol for Data Processing
In transitive terms the difference between untie and unstring
is that untie is to free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind while unstring is to shake the nerves of; to cause anxiety or panic in.untie
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Verb
- to untie a knot
- Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
- All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie .
Antonyms
* tieAnagrams
*unstring
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Verb
- The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me
- A fire is the only thing that unstrings me entirely, I feel so helpless to combat it. I'm afraid of snakes, but I can kill them.
- It is also possible to save the delimiters (this might prove useful if the delimiters were also some sort of text identifier) and to count the length of the data items we are unstringing .
