Meaning

14 senses

  1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.

    Grand Strand

    Strand

    бе́регbéreg, пля́жpljáž

  2. A small brook or rivulet.

  3. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)A passage for water; gutter.

  4. A street.

  5. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.

    жи́лаžíla, нитьnitʹ

    line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

  6. A string.

    Strang

  7. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

    strand of spaghetti

    strand of hair

    Strähne

    пря́дьprjádʹ

  8. A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

  9. A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

  10. (figuratively)An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

    strand of truth

  11. A nucleotide chain.

    Strang

    цепьcepʹ, цепочкаcepočka

  12. (Philippines, formal)A specialization of a senior high school track.

Examples

149 sentences

  1. I know that Tom is stranded.

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  2. Tom got stranded on an island.

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  3. Tom is stranded somewhere, isn't he?

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  4. I'm stranded here at the airport.

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  5. Tom was stranded on an island.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 4
beach:
each of strings that make up yarn, rope or cord:
individual length of string-like substance:
genetics: nucleotide chain:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
beach:
string:
individual length of string-like substance:

Origin

* From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”)

* 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, German Strand (“beach”), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish strand (“beach”), Faroese strond (“beach”), Icelandic strönd (“beach”).

Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streng (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”). Compare also Old High German stranga (“strand of hair”), modern German Strang (“strand, thread, cord”).

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Forms

plural: strands
Singularstrand
Pluralstrands

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
trackA2
Close in meaning

Word family

21 related words
Derivedastrandseastrandstrandlinestrand tangantanganbeta strandcounterstrandforestrandinterstrandintrastrandlagging strandleading strandmonostrandmultistrandsense strandslut strandstrandlessstrandliketemplate strandtetrastrandunstrandworkstrand

Collocations

4 patterns
  • stranded on a
  • was stranded on
  • be stranded somewhere
  • stranded somewhere

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
straitB2straitjacketstrandingstrangeA1
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