Meaning of Rand | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
2. A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
3. A random number.
4. Initialism of Research and Development: a nonprofit global policy think tank.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
5. Alternative letter-case form of rand (the currency of south Africa)
   alt-of
6. The Witwatersrand, a gold-mining geographic area also known as the Reef in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, of which the principal city is Johannesburg.
   South-Africa
7. A surname.
8. A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
   dialectal, obsolete
9. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.
10. A diminutive of the male given names Randall or Randolph.
11. A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
    UK, dialectal, rare
12. A number of places, other than in South Africa:
13. A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1078).
14. A small town in Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
15. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
16. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, United States.
17. A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.
18. An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.
19. A census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.

Equivalents

Examples

“at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh”

“Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation.”

“Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.”

“[…] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep.”

“They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins”

“They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue.”

“In a Fox Business interview on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) alluded to the distinction between private and government responses to offensive speech, but his comments were ambiguous enough that an uncharitable viewer could easily interpret them as approval of the latter.”

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