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[stran-did]

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adjective

composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.

Origin:
1805–15; strand² + -ed³

Related forms

strand·ed·ness, noun

un·strand·ed, adjective

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Example Sentences

The owners of a stranded communication satellite said today that they would pay the space agency to rescue it.

Thousands of people are stranded there and waiting for flights.

The hospital reception posts the times of high tide, to save visitors from being stranded.

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The owners of a stranded communication satellite said today that they would pay the space agency to rescue it.

Thousands of people are stranded there and waiting for flights.

The hospital reception posts the times of high tide, to save visitors from being stranded.

Too small to escape the waves with his family, he was stranded on a coral reef.

Maybe it would be better to be stranded with a baker.

His only physical evidence was the beak, collected from the remains of a stranded specimen that had recently washed ashore.

After accidentally discovering an alien artifact, the space miner finds himself stranded on an asteroid, his co-workers missing.

Several hikers sought safety inside public toilets and were later stranded as the water spilled over the trails.

The boats have been used to rescue stranded trucks but now sit idle.

Rescuers in helicopters and boats are searching for the stranded in the wake of the storm.

Working alone or in a group, orcas create waves that dislodge a floe, break it up and wash the stranded prey into open water.

If you ever do run out of juice, though, you wont be stranded.

His father, who was in charge of a small electric company, needed to find a way to reach his stranded customers.

Police, soldiers, and military workers were still trying to reach the stranded.

We've all been there: stranded in a parking lot, street corner, or our own driveway with a drained battery.

Some think that is where it should be, others think it tragically stranded.

There's also a new online versus mode, in which one player must prevent the other from rescuing stranded spacemen.

Rescuing stranded astronauts would be almost impossible.

It goes without saying that the agents at the gate won't even hint at the likelihood of your being stranded.

Improvement in airline tracking software could mean fewer stranded travelers and less frequent delays.

Some people never leave home but find they are stranded by a shift in borders.

People see the bare sea bottom littered with flopping fish and stranded boats.

Travelers stranded in airports surrounded by snowy fortresses.

Lack of power leads to angry, stranded riders and minimal riding options, while adequately powered.

The rescue workers said they planned to use other horses known to be strong swimmers to guide the stranded animals to dry land.

We can see both stranded prepositions and verb particles in the following sentence.

She risks being stranded in a political no-man's land.

Larger boulders are grouped together and stranded on the surface in.

Meanwhile, the other dog would return to the hospice to alert the monks of the stranded pilgrim.

We're going to position this as a car first and electric second… people do not want to be stranded on the way home from work.

News agency footage showed a man stranded atop a bus, as it flowed into another bus, and he jumps to the more stable rooftop.

Of course, anyone who's been stranded in a hostile environment without their car.

Changes to the student-visa system this year have left thousands of foreign students stranded at home and as angry as wet cats.

People and uprooted trees were carried out to sea, while stingrays and sharks were left stranded in fields and parking lots.

Staaf and her colleagues have collected the bodies of some of the stranded squid and plan to study their stomach contents.

Clients and creditors still have cash stranded in the failed firm as administrators in different countries pick over its bones.

In a far north without ice, a mother bear could be stranded a long way from good hunting, struggling to feed herself and her cubs.

The military trains its troops to deal with the contingencies of getting stranded behind enemy lines.

Unilever, which is facing slowing growth overall, is stranded in no-man's-land.

In a far north without ice, a mother bear could be stranded a long way from good hunting, struggling.

The pirates blasted the stranded sloops with cannons.

But the results showed that people would help a stranded robot.

Furthermore, all the continents would be larger, so today's coastal cities would be stranded inland.

Many headphone cables come stranded with filaments of nylon or some other thin cord.

Now many are stranded amid debris and floodwaters, stuck in attics or on.

But during a rest stop, the man suddenly leaves the young people stranded.

People were dying, toxic water was still rising, and thousands were still stranded.

But sea lions with neurological damage have been found stranded on beaches even when no toxin-producing blooms are evident.

Huge boats are stranded far from the ocean, some of them upside down.

The disruption to air travel has left people stranded at airports the world over.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to drive or leave (a ship, fish, etc.) aground or ashore: The receding tide stranded the whale.

(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)

to be driven or left ashore; run aground.

to be halted or struck by a difficult situation: He stranded in the middle of his speech.

noun

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

noun

one of a number of fibers, threads, or yarns that are plaited or twisted together to form a rope, cord, or the like.

a similar part of a wire rope.

a rope made of such twisted or plaited fibers.

a fiber or filament, as in animal or plant tissue.

a thread or threadlike part of anything: the strands of a plot.

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a tress of hair.

a string of pearls, beads, etc.

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verb (used with object)

to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.

to break one or more strands of (a rope).

Origin:
1490–1500; origin uncertain

Related forms

strand·less, adjective

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

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.

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