strand
Plural: strands
Noun
- 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"
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- a necklace made by a stringing objects together
- "a strand of pearls"
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
- The shore or beach of a lake or river.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- A passage for water; gutter.
- A street.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
- A string.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- A nucleotide chain.
- A specialization of a senior high school track.
- Synonym of track.
Verb
Verb Forms: stranded, stranding, strands
- To leave in a helpless or difficult situation, especially ashore.
- leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
- drive (a vessel) ashore
- bring to the ground
- To run aground; to beach.
- 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.
- To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
- To break a strand of (a rope).
- To form by uniting strands.
Examples
- Forgetting to save an ’S’ can really strand your scoring opportunities later in Words With Friends.
- Grand Strand
- Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.
- strand of hair
- strand of spaghetti
Origin / Etymology
* From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *strand, from Proto-Germanic *strandō (“edge, rim, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand, Icelandic strönd.
* (street): Perhaps from the similarity of shape.
Synonyms
chain, fibril, filament, ground, maroon, run aground, string, abandon, beach, desert, track
Scrabble Score: 7
strand: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordstrand: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
strand: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary