STRAND
\stɹˈand], \stɹˈand], \s_t_ɹ_ˈa_n_d]\
Definitions of STRAND
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
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a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
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a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
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a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
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a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
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leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue; "the travellers were marooned"
By Princeton University
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line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
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a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
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a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
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a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
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To break a strand of (a rope).
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The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
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To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
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To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
By Oddity Software
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The shore of a sea, ocean, or lake; one of the strings or twists of a rope; a single thread.
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To drive upon the seashore; run aground; to break one of the strings or twists of (a rope); to make, as a rope, by twisting the parts of together.
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To be driven ashore.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The margin or beach of the sea or of a lake.
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To run aground.
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To drift or be driven ashore.
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One of the strings or parts that compose a rope.
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To break a strand.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
