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strand

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[ strand ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to drive or leave (a ship, fish, etc.) aground or ashore:

    The receding tide stranded the whale.

  2. (usually used in the passive) to bring into or leave in a helpless position:

    He was stranded in the middle of nowhere.



verb (used without object)

  1. to be driven or left ashore; run aground.
  2. to be halted or struck by a difficult situation:

    He stranded in the middle of his speech.

noun

  1. the land bordering the sea, a lake, or a river; shore; beach.

strand

2

[ strand ]

noun

  1. one of a number of fibers, threads, or yarns that are plaited or twisted together to form a rope, cord, or the like.
  2. a similar part of a wire rope.
  3. a rope made of such twisted or plaited fibers.
  4. a fiber or filament, as in animal or plant tissue:

    a single strand of messenger RNA.

  5. a thread or threadlike part of anything:

    the strands of a plot.

  6. a tress of hair.
  7. a string of pearls, beads, etc.

verb (used with object)

  1. to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
  2. to break one or more strands of (a rope).

Strand

3

[ strand ]

noun

  1. Mark, 1934–2014, U.S. poet, born in Canada: U.S. poet laureate 1990–91.
  2. Paul, 1890–1976, U.S. photographer and documentary-film producer.
  3. the, a street parallel to the Thames, in W central London, England: famous for hotels and theaters.

Strand

1

/ ٰæԻ /

noun

  1. the Strand
    a street in W central London, parallel to the Thames: famous for its hotels and theatres
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strand

2

/ ٰæԻ /

verb

  1. to leave or drive (ships, fish, etc) aground or ashore or (of ships, fish, etc) to be left or driven ashore
  2. tr; usually passive to leave helpless, as without transport or money, etc
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noun

  1. a shore or beach
  2. a foreign country
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strand

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/ ٰæԻ /

noun

  1. a set of or one of the individual fibres or threads of string, wire, etc, that form a rope, cable, etc
  2. a single length of string, hair, wool, wire, etc
  3. a string of pearls or beads
  4. a constituent element in a complex whole

    one strand of her argument

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verb

  1. tr to form (a rope, cable, etc) by winding strands together
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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of strand1

First before 1000; Middle English noun strond(e), strand(e), Old English strand; cognate with Dutch strand, German Strand, Old Norse ٰǫԻ; akin to strew

Origin of strand2

First recorded in 1490–1500; origin uncertain
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of strand1

Old English; related to Old Norse ٰöԻ side, Middle High German strant beach, Latin sternere to spread

Origin of strand2

C15: of uncertain origin
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Prosecutor Temitayo Dasaolu said the criminals threatened to leave him "stranded and naked" in a forest if he did not pay another £500 within 24 hours.

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Domoic acid poisoning is stranding marine mammals as warnings are issued to beachgoers of the threat posed by animals that are transformed by their illness.

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Other deaths have included a man and his teenaged daughter in Tennessee and a 68-year-old man in Missouri who reportedly stopped to help a stranded driver.

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Within those cables there are tiny strands of fiber optic material, the width of an eyelash.

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They speak of shortages of food, water and fuel, while trucks carrying aid are stranded at military checkpoints around the city.

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