strand
nounverbnounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈstɹand//
- United Kingdom/[ˈstɹ̝̊ʷand]/
- Canada//ˈstɹænd//
- Canada/[ˈstɹ̝̊ʷænd] ~ [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷænd]/
- Scotland//ˈstɾänd//
The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
noun
- 1
The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
Grand Strand
A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.
They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.
- 2
archaicThe shore or beach of a lake or river.
- 3
A small brook or rivulet.
- 4
A passage for water; gutter.
- 5
A street.
Etymology
* From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *strand, from Proto-Germanic *strandō (“edge, rim, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, German Strand (“beach”), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish strand (“beach”), Faroese strond (“beach”), Icelandic strönd (“beach”). * (street): Perhaps from the similarity of shape.
verb
- 1
To run aground; to beach.
- 2
figurativeTo leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- 3
figurativeTo leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert. To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.
- 4
To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
We first note that wh-movement can freely strand prepositions in Icelandic, as in the other Scandinavian languages.
In her dissertation, Goldberg (2005) offers a review of diagnostics used to identify verb-stranding VPE to that point, including tests which link the characteristics of English-style VPE (which strands an auxiliary verb) to verb-stranding VPE in languages like Hebrew and Irish.
noun
- 1
Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
- 2
A string.
- 3
An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
strand of spaghetti
strand of hair
- 4
A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- 5
A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
By 1985, the children's strand had been renamed Children's BBC (CBBC by the mid-1990s), which continued to show animation among other programming in a dedicated time slot.
- 6
figurativeAn element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
strand of truth
The explanation draws equally from other contemporary strands of political and social theory.
She responds to both questions in writing and checks her answer on the fact question. Her suspicions confirmed about the importance of the two names, Miranda vows to pay close attention to this strand of the story as she continues to read.
The concept of a combined authority headed by an elected Mayor is a key strand in current transport development, and is driving a new generation of projects such as bringing rail connectivity to Portishead and stations served by the Mid-Cornwall Metro.
- 7
A nucleotide chain.
- 8
A specialization of a senior high school track.
- 9
informalSynonym of track.
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streng (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”). Compare also Old High German stranga (“strand of hair”), modern German Strang (“strand, thread, cord”).
verb
- 1
To break a strand of (a rope).
- 2
To form by uniting strands.
Forms
- plural
- strands
- past tense
- stranded
- past participle
- stranded
- present participle
- stranding
- third person singular
- strands