strand

1. 1

   The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.

   • Grand Strand
2. 2

   The shore or beach of a lake or river.archaicdialectalpoetic

3. 3

   A small brook or rivulet.

4. 4

   A passage for water; gutter.Northern-EnglandScotlandUK

5. 5

   A street.

1. 1

   To run aground; to beach.transitive

2. 2

   To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.figurativelytransitive

3. 3

   To 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.figurativelytransitive

   • Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.
4. 4

   To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.transitive

   • We first note that wh-movement can freely strand prepositions in Icelandic, as in the other Scandinavian languages.

syn. abandon · desert

1. 1

   Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.

2. 2

   A string.

3. 3

   An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

   • strand of spaghetti
   • strand of hair
4. 4

   A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

5. 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. 6

   An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.figuratively

   • strand of truth
7. 7

   A nucleotide chain.

8. 8

   A specialization of a senior high school track.Philippinesformal

9. 9

   Synonym of track.Philippinesinformal

1. 1

   To break a strand of (a rope).transitive

2. 2

   To form by uniting strands.transitive