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- 1 Initialism of reasonable and nondiscriminatory: a standard used with respect to licensing. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
- 1 The Witwatersrand, a gold-mining geographic area also known as the Reef in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, of which the principal city is Johannesburg. South-Africa
- 2 A surname.
- 3 Initialism of Research and Development: a nonprofit global policy think tank. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 4 A diminutive of the male given names Randall or Randolph.
"In a Fox Business interview on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) alluded to the distinction between private and government responses to offensive speech, but his comments were ambiguous enough that an uncharitable viewer could easily interpret them as approval of the latter."
- 5 A number of places, other than in South Africa:; A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1078).
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- 6 A number of places, other than in South Africa:; A small town in Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
- 7 A number of places, other than in South Africa:; An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, United States.
- 8 A number of places, other than in South Africa:; An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.
- 9 A number of places, other than in South Africa:; A census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
- 1 The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
"at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh"
- 2 A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
- 3 A random number.
- 4 Alternative letter-case form of rand (the currency of south Africa) alt-of
- 5 the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents wordnet
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- 6 A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak. dialectal, obsolete
"They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins"
- 7 The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.
- 8 A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth. UK, dialectal, rare
"They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue."
- 9 A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
- 10 A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.
- 1 To rant; to storm. intransitive, obsolete
"[…] I ſmelt out my noble ſtincker Greenſheild in his Chamber, and as tho my heart ſtringes had bin crackt, I vvept, & thumpd, and thumpd, and rau'd and randed, and raild, and told him hovv my vvife vvas novv grovvne as common as baibery, and that ſhee had hierd her Taylor to ride vvith her to VVare, to meete a Gentleman of the Court."
Etymology
From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.
Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand. The sense of currency is because of gold that was extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks.
See rant.
Shortened from random.
From Afrikaans rand, from English rand; compare English rand.
From Afrikaans rand, from English rand; compare English rand.
From Afrikaans rand, from English rand; compare English rand.
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