Meaning of strand | Babel Free

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1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
4. The shore or beach of a lake or river.
   archaic, dialectal, poetic
5. A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.
   countable, uncountable
6. A string.
7. A thoroughfare in west-central London, England, running parallel to the northern bank of the Thames River and eastward from Trafalgar Square in the West End to the City of London. Among its well-known fixtures is the Savoy Hotel.
8. A small brook or rivulet.
9. An area surrounding the street in central London, Greater London, England.
   countable, uncountable
10. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
11. Land, typically a beach, bordering a body of water.
12. A passage for water; gutter.
    British, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal
13. A municipality of Rogaland, Norway.
    countable, uncountable
14. A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
15. Mark, born 1934, U.S. poet, born in Canada: U.S. poet laureate 1990–91.
16. A street.
17. A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
18. Something that suggests the continuousness of a fine continuous filament:skein, thread.
19. An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
    figuratively
20. a thin thread, eg one of those twisted together to form rope, string, knitting-wool etc, or a long thin lock of hair. She pushed the strands of hair back from her face. string خَيط، سِلْك مَجدول шнур/кичур fio pramen die Strähne tråd; wire; lok νήμα, τούφαhebra, hilo keerd, salk رشته säie brin; mècheגדיל रेशा, लड़ी vlako, pramen szál, fonal helaian þáttur, þráður filo より糸 가닥 pluoštas, sruoga (matu) šķipsna; diegs; dzija lembar strengtråd, fiber, hårlokkwłókno, kosmyk رشته fio fir; meşă прядь ...
    eg
21. A nucleotide chain.
22. filamento, hilo; fibra delicada.
23. A specialization of a senior high school track.
    Philippines, formal
24. To drive or run (a boat, for example) ashore or aground.
25. Synonym of track.
    Philippines, informal
26. To bring into or leave in a difficult or helpless position: The convoy was stranded in the desert.
27. Baseball To leave (a base runner) on base at the end of an inning.
    Baseball
28. Linguistics To separate (a grammatical element) from other elements in a construction, either by moving it out of the construction or moving the rest of the construction. In the sentence What are you aiming at, the preposition at has been stranded.
    Linguistics

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“strand of spaghetti”

“strand of hair”

“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.”

“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.”

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