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Strand   /strænd/   Listen
Strand

noun
1.
A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole.  "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
2.
Line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable.
3.
A necklace made by a stringing objects together.  Synonyms: chain, string.  "A strand of pearls"
4.
A very slender natural or synthetic fiber.  Synonyms: fibril, filament.
5.
A poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides).
6.
A street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels.
verb
(past & past part. stranded; pres. part. stranding)
1.
Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue.  Synonym: maroon.
2.
Drive (a vessel) ashore.
3.
Bring to the ground.  Synonyms: ground, run aground.



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"Strand" Quotes from Famous Books



... he could not stay Within his tent to wait for day; But walked him forth along the sand, Where thousand sleepers strewed the strand. ...
— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper
... the nineteenth century a street near the Strand was the haunt of black women who shaved with ease and dexterity. In St Giles'-in-the-Fields was another female shaver, and yet another woman wielder of the razor is mentioned in the "Topography of London," ...
— At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History • William Andrews
... moon, and stars give answer; shall we not staunchly stand Even as now, forever, wards of the wilder strand, Sentinels of the stillness, lords of ...
— Giant Hours With Poet Preachers • William L. Stidger
... serpents along the hill-side, destroying vineyard and garden, cottage and chapel, on their downward path. Resina shared the fate of its ancient forerunner Herculaneum, whilst Torre del Greco and Portici suffered severely, as we can see to-day by noting the great masses of lava flung on to the strand at various points. To add to the universal confusion of Nature, the sea, which had now become extraordinarily tempestuous, probably owing to some submarine earthquake-shock, suddenly retreated half a mile from ...
— The Naples Riviera • Herbert M. Vaughan
... stripped Her bird of every caudal feather; A strand of gold-bright hair she clipped, And bound ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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