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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STRAND, n.
1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean, or of a large lake, and perhaps of a navigable river. It is never used of the bank of a small river or pond. The Dutch on the Hudson apply it to a landing place; as the strand at Kingston.
2. One of the twists or parts of which a rope is composed.
STRAND, v.t.
1. To drive or run aground on the sea shore, as a ship.
2. To break one of the strands of a rope.
STRAND, v.i. To drift or be driven on shore; to run aground; as, a ship strands at high water.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
2: line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
3: a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"; [syn: chain, string, strand]
4: a very slender natural or synthetic fiber [syn: fibril, filament, strand]
5: a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
6: a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels v
1: leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the travellers were marooned" [syn: maroon, strand]
2: drive (a vessel) ashore
3: bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship" [syn: ground, strand, run aground]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old Norse str?nd shore Date: before 12th century the land bordering a body of water ; shore, beach II. verb Date: 1621 transitive verb 1. to run, drive, or cause to drift onto a strand ; run aground 2. to leave in a strange or an unfavorable place especially without funds or means to depart 3. to leave (a base runner) on base at the end of an inning in baseball intransitive verb to become stranded III. noun Etymology: Middle English stronde, strande Date: 13th century 1. Scottish & dialect England stream 2. Scottish & dialect England sea IV. noun Etymology: Middle English strond Date: 15th century 1. a. fibers or filaments twisted, plaited, or laid parallel to form a unit for further twisting or plaiting into yarn, thread, rope, or cordage b. one of the wires twisted together or laid parallel to form a wire rope or cable c. something (as a molecular chain) resembling a strand <a strand of DNA> 2. an element (as a yarn or thread) of a woven or plaited material 3. an elongated or twisted and plaited body resembling a rope <a strand of pearls> 4. one of the elements interwoven in a complex whole <one strand of the novel's plot> V. transitive verb Date: 1841 1. to break a strand of (a rope) accidentally 2. a. to form (as a rope) from strands b. to play out, twist, or arrange in a strand

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. & n. --v. 1 tr. & intr. run aground. 2 tr. (as stranded adj.) in difficulties, esp. without money or means of transport. --n. rhet. or poet. the margin of a sea, lake, or river, esp. the foreshore. Etymology: OE 2. n. & v. --n. 1 each of the threads or wires twisted round each other to make a rope or cable. 2 a a single thread or strip of fibre. b a constituent filament. 3 a lock of hair. 4 an element or strain in any composite whole. --v.tr. 1 break a strand in (a rope). 2 arrange in strands. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Strand Strand, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stranded; p. pr. & vb. n. Stranding.] To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Strand Strand, n. [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G. str["a]hne a skein, lock of hair, strand of a rope.] One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Strand Strand, n. [AS. strand; akin to D., G., Sw., & Dan. strand, Icel. str["o]nd.] The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. --Chaucer. Strand birds. (Zo["o]l.) See Shore birds, under Shore. Strand plover (Zo["o]l.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover. Strand wolf (Zo["o]l.), the brown hyena.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(strands, stranding, stranded) 1. A strand of something such as hair, wire, or thread is a single thin piece of it. She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes. ...high fences, topped by strands of barbed-wire... N-COUNT: usu N of n 2. A strand of a plan or theory is a part of it. There had been two strands to his tactics... He's trying to bring together various strands of radical philosophic thought. = element N-COUNT 3. If you are stranded, you are prevented from leaving a place, for example because of bad weather. The climbers had been stranded by a storm... VERB: be V-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Beach, shore, coast. II. v. n. Run aground, get ashore, be wrecked, be cast away.

Moby Thesaurus

animal fiber, artificial fiber, bank, beach, berm, capillament, cast away, cilium, cirrus, coast, coastland, coastline, cobweb, denier, embankment, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, foreshore, gossamer, ground, hair, hank, ironbound coast, lido, littoral, pile up, plage, playa, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, run aground, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shingle, shipwreck, shore, shoreline, skein, submerged coast, suture, take the ground, tendril, thread, threadlet, tidewater, waterfront, waterside, web, wreck