substring

About 0.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".

2. verb To extract a substring from.
3. verb To take as a substring.

Similar words

superstring string border suffix varchar charstring delimiter token segment wordstring

Often followed by

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