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strand

Pronunciation: /ˈstɹænd/

The English word “strand” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
  2. The shore or beach of a lake or river.
  3. A small brook or rivulet.
  4. A passage for water; gutter.
  5. A street.
  6. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
  7. A string.
  8. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
  9. A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
  10. A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
  11. An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
  12. A nucleotide chain.
  13. A specialization of a senior high school track.
  14. Synonym of track.

verb

  1. To run aground; to beach.
  2. To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
  3. To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
  4. To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
  5. To break a strand of (a rope).
  6. To form by uniting strands.

Etymology

* 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, German Strand (“beach”), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål,…

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