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Strand

//stɹænd// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    An area surrounding the street in central London, Greater London, England. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A municipality of Rogaland, Norway. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.

    "Grand Strand"

  2. 2
    Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
  3. 3
    a necklace made by stringing objects together wordnet
  4. 4
    The shore or beach of a lake or river. archaic, dialectal, poetic
  5. 5
    A string.
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  1. 6
    line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable wordnet
  2. 7
    A small brook or rivulet.
  3. 8
    An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

    "strand of spaghetti"

  4. 9
    a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole wordnet
  5. 10
    A passage for water; gutter. British, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal
  6. 11
    A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
  7. 12
    a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) wordnet
  8. 13
    A street.
  9. 14
    A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

    "By 1985, the children's strand had been renamed Children's BBC (CBBC by the mid-1990s), which continued to show animation among other programming in a dedicated time slot."

  10. 15
    a very slender natural or synthetic fiber wordnet
  11. 16
    An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread. figuratively

    "strand of truth"

  12. 17
    A nucleotide chain.
  13. 18
    A specialization of a senior high school track. Philippines, formal
  14. 19
    Synonym of track. Philippines, informal
Verb
  1. 1
    To run aground; to beach. transitive
  2. 2
    To break a strand of (a rope). transitive
  3. 3
    bring to the ground wordnet
  4. 4
    To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert. figuratively, transitive
  5. 5
    To form by uniting strands. transitive
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  1. 6
    drive (a vessel) ashore wordnet
  2. 7
    To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base. transitive

    "Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair."

  3. 8
    leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue wordnet
  4. 9
    To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it. transitive

    "We first note that wh-movement can freely strand prepositions in Icelandic, as in the other Scandinavian languages."

Etymology

Etymology 1

* From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *strand, from Proto-Germanic *strandō (“edge, rim, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand, Icelandic strönd. * (street): Perhaps from the similarity of shape.

Etymology 2

* From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *strand, from Proto-Germanic *strandō (“edge, rim, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand, Icelandic strönd. * (street): Perhaps from the similarity of shape.

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streng (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”). Compare also Old High German stranga (“strand of hair”), modern German Strang (“strand, thread, cord”).

Etymology 4

Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streng (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”). Compare also Old High German stranga (“strand of hair”), modern German Strang (“strand, thread, cord”).

Etymology 5

So called after the north strand (i.e. shore) of the river Thames.

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