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1   [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)
3.
to be driven or left ashore; run aground.
4.
to be halted or struck by a difficult situation: He stranded in the middle of his speech.

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noun
5.
the land bordering the sea, a lake, or a river; shore; beach.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English (noun), Old English; cognate with Dutch strand, German Strand, Old Norse strǫnd; akin to strew
Example Sentences
  • There was something else: a stainless-steel hook embedded in its mouth, trailing a long strand of monofilament line.
  • Finally, if you're really serious about the carpet, tug off a strand or two of the pile and burn it.
  • With no decision on a leader, voters struggle to detect which strand of the party predominates.
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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.
5.
a thread or threadlike part of anything: the strands of a plot.
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6.
a tress of hair.
7.
a string of pearls, beads, etc.
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verb (used with object)
8.
to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
9.
to break one or more strands of (a rope).
Origin:
1490–1500; origin uncertain

Related forms
strand·less, adjective

Strand

   [strand]
noun
1.
Mark, born 1934, 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.
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strand1 (strænd)
 
—vb
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
 
—n
3.  a shore or beach
4.  a foreign country
 
[Old English; related to Old Norse strönd side, Middle High German strant beach, Latin sternere to spread]

strand2 (strænd)
 
—n
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
 
—vb
5.  (tr) to form (a rope, cable, etc) by winding strands together
 
[C15: of uncertain origin]

Strand (strænd)
 
—n
the Strand a street in W central London, parallel to the Thames: famous for its hotels and theatres

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strand
"shore," O.E. strand, from P.Gmc. *strandas (cf. Dan., Swed. strand "beach, shore, strand," O.N. strönd "border, edge, shore," M.L.G. strant, Ger. Strand, Du. strand "beach"), perhaps from PIE base *ster- "to stretch out." Strictly, the part of a shore that lies between the tide-marks. Formerly
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also used of river banks, hence the London street name (1246).

strand
"fiber of a rope, string, etc.," 1497, probably from O.Fr. estran, from a Gmc. source akin to O.H.G. streno "lock, tress, strand of hair," M.Du. strene, Ger. Strähne "skein, strand," of unknown origin.

strand
1621, "to drive aground on a shore," from strand (n.1); fig. sense of "leave helpless" is first recorded 1837.
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Strand definition


1. AND-parallel logic programming language. Essentially flat Parlog83 with sequential-and and sequential-or eliminated.
["Strand: New Concepts on Parallel Programming", Ian Foster et al, P-H 1990]. Strand88 is a commercial implementation.
2. A query language, implemented on top of INGRES (an RDBMS). ["Modelling Summary Data", R. Johnson, Proc ACM SIGMOD Conf 1981].

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