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Strand   /strænd/   Listen
Strand

noun
1.
A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole.  "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.  Synonyms: chain, string.  "A strand of pearls"
4.
A very slender natural or synthetic fiber.  Synonyms: fibril, filament.
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.
verb
(past & past part. stranded; pres. part. stranding)
1.
Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue.  Synonym: maroon.
2.
Drive (a vessel) ashore.
3.
Bring to the ground.  Synonyms: ground, run aground.



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"Strand" Quotes from Famous Books



... STRAND. November 21.—In the evening there happened a quarrel between the Portugal ambassador's brother and two or three others of that nation with one Mr. Gerard, an English gentleman, whom they all ...
— The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 • Edward Abbott Parry
... contents of the treaties are usually the same: (1) Protection of person and goods; (2) abolition of the law which declared forfeit to the feudal lord such goods as, for instance, might happen to fall from a wagon and thereby touch the ground; (3) the abolition of the strand right, which had secured to the owner of the shore land the jetsam and flotsam of wrecked or stranded vessels; (4) the concession of legal procedure to the debtor; (5) liberation from the duel and other forms of the "divine judgment" ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume VI. • Various
... her eyes to the stars; nor will she dream that he is Apollo; nor will the pair moon in the twilight over the love of Hero and Leander. And the many monogamic generations out of which he has descended would fail to prevent polygamy did another woman chance to strand on ...
— The Kempton-Wace Letters • Jack London
... making prayers at that time,—I have not been free to return thanks until now in the council. I do so, and I speak in Spain's words as this is not a Te-hua matter. It is a gift from a Christian to a Pagan, and the message told me a king would be proud to wear this strand of carven beads. Senores:—I am no king, kings give royal bounties to each giver of a gift. I stand naked that you see with your own eyes how little I can accept,—since in return I can give not anything! Take ...
— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan
... they were thus sorrowing behold, they heard a mighty clamour, that came from seaward and looking in the direction of the clamour saw a multitude of apes, as they were swarming locusts. Now the castle and the island belonged to these apes, who, finding the strangers' boat moored to the strand, had scuttled it and after repaired to the palace, where they came upon Janshah and his men seated." Here the Serpent- queen again broke off her recital saying, "All this, O Hasib, was told to Bulukiya by the young man sitting between the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton


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