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strand

1  [strand]
Use strand in a Sentence
–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.
–noun
5. the land bordering the sea, a lake, or a river; shore; beach.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME (n.), OE; c. D strand, G Strand, ON strǫnd; akin to strew

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.
6. a tress of hair.
7. a string of pearls, beads, etc.
–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; orig. uncert.

Related forms:
strandless, 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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strand 1   (strānd)   
n.  The land bordering a body of water; a beach.
v.   strand·ed, strand·ing, strands

v.   tr.

  1. To drive or run ashore or aground.

  2. To bring into or leave in a difficult or helpless position: The convoy was stranded in the desert.

  3. Baseball To leave (a base runner) on base at the end of an inning.

  4. Linguistics To separate (a grammatical element) from other elements in a construction, either by moving it out of the construction or moving the rest of the construction. In the sentence What are you aiming at, the preposition at has been stranded.

v.   intr.

  1. To be driven or run ashore or aground.

  2. To be brought into or left in a difficult or helpless position.


[Middle English, from Old English.]
strand 2   (strānd)   
n.  

  1. A complex of fibers or filaments that have been twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread, or yarn.

    1. A single filament, such as a fiber or thread, of a woven or braided material.

    2. A wisp or tress of hair.

  3. Something that is plaited or twisted as a ropelike length: a strand of pearls; a strand of DNA.

  4. One of the elements woven together to make an intricate whole, such as the plot of a novel.

tr.v.   strand·ed, strand·ing, strands

  1. To make or form (a rope, for example) by twisting strands together.

  2. To break a strand of (a rope, for example).


[Middle English strond.]
Strand   (strānd)   
A thoroughfare in west-central London, England, running parallel to the northern bank of the Thames River and eastward from Trafalgar Square in the West End to the City of London. Among its well-known fixtures is the Savoy Hotel.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

strand  (n.1)
"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 also used of river banks, hence the London street name (1246).

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

strand  (n.2)
"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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: strand
Pronunciation: 'strand
Function: noun
: something (as a molecular chain) resembling a thread strand of DNA>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

Strand
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].

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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