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Definition of Strand
1. Verb. Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue. "The travellers were marooned"
2. Noun. A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole. "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
3. Verb. Drive (a vessel) ashore.
4. Noun. Line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable.
5. Verb. Bring to the ground. "The storm grounded the ship"
Causes: Ground, Run Aground
Generic synonyms: Land
Derivative terms: Ground
6. Noun. A necklace made by a stringing objects together. "A strand of pearls"
7. Noun. A very slender natural or synthetic fiber.
Specialized synonyms: Barb, Cobweb, Gossamer, Chromatid, Myofibril, Myofibrilla, Sarcostyle, Rhizoid, Hypha, Paraphysis
Generic synonyms: Fiber, Fibre
Derivative terms: Filamentous
8. Noun. A poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides).
9. Noun. A street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels.
Definition of Strand
1. n. One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
2. v. t. To break a strand of (a rope).
3. n. The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
4. v. t. To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
5. v. i. To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
Definition of Strand
1. Proper noun. A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street ¹
2. Noun. (context: now poetic or archaic) The flat area of land bordering a body of water; a beach or shore. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive nautical) To run aground; to beach. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base. ¹
6. Noun. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord. ¹
7. Noun. A string. ¹
8. Noun. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance. ¹
9. Noun. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided. ¹
10. Noun. (context: broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject. ¹
11. Noun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Strand
1. to leave in an unfavorable situation [v -ED, -ING, -S]