strand

Noun (1)

strand (plural strands)

1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
   • 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.1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter...
2. (archaic, dialectal, poetic) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
3. A small brook or rivulet.
4. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) A passage for water; gutter.
5. A street.

Verb (1)

strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

1. (transitive) To run aground; to beach.

   Synonyms:

   beach

2. (figuratively, transitive) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
   1. (figuratively, transitive) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
      • Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.
3. (transitive) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
   • We first note that wh-movement can freely strand prepositions in Icelandic, as in the other Scandinavian languages.1985, Joan Maling, Annie Zaenen, “Preposition-Stranding and Passive”, in Nordic Journal of Linguistics, volume 8, number 2, →DOI, page 199
   • In her dissertation, Goldberg (2005) offers a review of diagnostics used to identify verb-stranding VPE to that point, including tests which link the characteristics of English-style VPE (which strands an auxiliary verb) to verb-stranding VPE in languages like Hebrew and Irish.2021, Emily Manetta, “Verb-second and the verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis debate”, in Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, page 6

Noun (2)

strand (plural strands)

1. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
2. A string.
3. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
   • strand of spaghetti
   • strand of hair
4. A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
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.2020, Nichola Dobson, Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons, page 45
6. (figuratively) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
   • strand of truth
   • The explanation draws equally from other contemporary strands of political and social theory.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 6, in Illusion of Order
7. A nucleotide chain.
8. (Philippines, formal) A specialization of a senior high school track.
9. (Philippines, informal) Synonym of track.

   Synonyms:

   track

Verb (2)

strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

1. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
2. (transitive) To form by uniting strands.

Proper noun capitalized: Strand

UK/stɹænd/British/stɹand/

Strand (countable and uncountable, plural Strands)

1. A surname.
2. A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.
3. An area surrounding the street in central London, Greater London, England.
4. A municipality of Rogaland, Norway.