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Strand   /strænd/   Listen
noun
Strand  n.  One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.


Strand  n.  The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
Strand birds. (Zool.) See Shore birds, under Shore.
Strand plover (Zool.), a black-bellied plover.
Strand wolf (Zool.), the brown hyena.


verb
Strand  v. t.  To break a strand of (a rope).


Strand  v. t.  (past & past part. stranded; pres. part. stranding)  To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.


Strand  v. i.  To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.





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"Strand" Quotes from Famous Books



... the gene that causes Parkinson's disease—in only nine days! Within a decade, gene chips will offer a road map for prevention of illnesses throughout a lifetime. Soon, we'll be able to carry all the phone calls on Mother's Day on a single strand of fiber the width of a human hair. A child born in 1998 may well live to see the ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... without being controlled by any one, to come home and work. I felt very little, I had been dreaming I was a very great man. But that is going off, and I find I shall conform in time to that state of life to which it has pleased God to call me. Besides, after all, Fleet Street and the Strand are better places to live in for good and all than amidst Skiddaw. Still, I turn back to those great places where I wandered about, participating in their greatness. After all, I could not live ...
— A Book of English Prose - Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools • Percy Lubbock
... face had that illumination which the spirit in his eyes—the Celtic fire drawn through the veins of his ancestors—gave to all he did and felt; and now as in a dream he saw little things in her he had never seen before. He saw that a little strand of her beautiful dark hair had broken away from its ordered place and hung prettily against the rosy, fevered skin of her cheek just beside her ear. He saw that there were no rings on her fingers save one, and that was her wedding-ring—and she had always been fond of wearing rings. He noted, ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... considerable. Younger gentlemen, whose god has been otherwhere, have married their housemaids. A Lord Viscount Townshend, who died in 1763 or thereabouts, did so in the nick of time, and left her fifty thousand pounds. Tom Coutts the banker, founder of the great house in the Strand, married his brother's nursemaid, and loved her faithfully for fifty years. She gave him three daughters who all married titles; but she was their ladyships' "dear Mamma" throughout; and Coutts himself saw to it ...
— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett
... sign of human life in the vicinity. The door was tied shut with a single strand of old rope, but there was no question that the fugitive might be hiding inside, for the reed walls had holes in them large enough to drive a sheep through, and there was nothing within to hide behind. I thrust an arm through an opening and ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck


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