Definitions for: Strand


[n] a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads" or"a strand of pearls"
[n] line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
[n] 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"
[n] a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
[n] a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
[n] a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
[v] leave stranded; put ashore on a desolate island and abandon



Webster (1913) Definition: Strand, n. [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G.
str["a]hne a skein, lock of hair, strand of a rope.]
One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of
which a rope is composed.


Strand, v. t.
To break a strand of (a rope).


Strand, n. [AS. strand; akin to D., G., Sw., & Dan.
strand, Icel. str["o]nd.]
The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large
lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. --Chaucer.

Strand birds. (Zo["o]l.) See Shore birds, under Shore.


Strand plover (Zo["o]l.), a black-bellied plover. See
Illust. of Plover.

Strand wolf (Zo["o]l.), the brown hyena.


Strand, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stranded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stranding.]
To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a
ship.


Strand, v. i.
To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship
stranded at high water.

Synonyms: chain, fibril, filament, maroon, string

See Also: abandon, barb, chromatid, cobweb, desert, desolate, fiber, fibre, form, forsake, gossamer, hypha, line, myofibril, myofibrilla, necklace, paraphysis, pattern, ply, rhizoid, rope yarn, sarcostyle, shape, shore, street, West End

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