Strand

Definition: Strand

Strand

Noun

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" or "a strand of pearls".

4. A very slender natural or synthetic fiber.

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

1. Leave stranded; put ashore on a desolate island and abandon.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "strand" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Computing

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Literature

Medicine

Metallurgy

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STRAND

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Synonyms: Strand

Filament

Beard; (roughness); ramification; strand.

Land

Coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium, alluvion; ancon.

Crosswords: Strand

Afrikaan (beach), Danish (beach), Dutch (beach), German (bank, beach, border, edge, foreshore, seashore, seaside, shore, strand, waterfront), Hungarian (beach, Plage, sands, sea-shore), Norwegian (beach), Swedish (bank, beach, border, edge, seafront, seaside, shore, strand, waterside).

If you mean strand Mitchell there, I won't do it! (Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before; writing credit: Samuel A. Peeples)

Rub down every strand of hair on my chest (Mr. Boombastic; performing artist: Shaggy)

Strand (1963)

Am grünen Strand der Spree (1960)

Goguta la strand (1929)

Strand te Blankenberge (1906)

Een Rendez-vous op het strand te Oostende (1905)

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References

• Strand Group Holdings Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Golfing the Carolina Grand Strand (reference)

• Original Illustrated Strand Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Facsimile Edition (reference)

• Paul Strand (Masters of Photography Series) (reference)

• Strand of a Thousand Pearls (reference)

• The House on the Strand (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• The Strand Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Grand Strand Gold (reference)

• Grand Strand Gold, Vol. 3 (reference)

• Strand (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-I) enters the T-lymphocyte where the virus loses its outer envelop, releasing its RNA and its reverse transcriptase. The reverse transcriptase builds a complimentary DNA strand from the viral RNA template. The DNA helix is inserted into the host genome. When this is transcribed by the infected cell, the new viral RNA and proteins are produced to form new viruses that then bud from the cell membrane, thus completing the life cycle of the virus. See artwork: GR-32. Credit: Trudy Nicholson (artist).

Looking over coastal wetlands towards a strand of beach near Vandenburg AFB. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Key Island After -- Australia n pines were removed from the coastal strand adjacent to the beach. Approximate ly 8,000 native plants, comprising 15 different species, were reintroduced to the island's scrub and hammock habitats, and many other native plants have recolonized naturally. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Caption: W.K.L. Dickson, in Doorway, {And Staff?} at His Laboratory and Workshop, 64 Strand; London, England; Unknown Date; {10.133/3} (jpg).

Halftone reproduction of a close-up photograph published in the "Strand Magazine", 1st Quarter 1901, showing dents in the monitor's turret armor made by Confederate cannon shot during the Civil War. These same dents are visible in Photo # NH 59436, taken circa 1864-65. An interesting optical illusion can be seen if this image is turned upside down. Credit: NAVY.

Through the glasses could be seen the shipwrecked couple standing side by side on the strand. Credit: Library of Congress.

Strand after strand parted grudgingly till it fell away altogether. Credit: Library of Congress.

Water vender [sic] and ox cart on Lake Managua's Strand, Managua, Nicaragua, C. A. Credit: Library of Congress.

Strand, gesichert durch Drahthindernis, sMG- und KWK'Stände, Panzermauer und Stolperdraht. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Strand, Atlantic City. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He turned away from her suddenly and set off across the strand.

They rowed about a league, and then set me down on a strand.

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Health

This full-length positive strand acts as a template for the synthesis of a full-length negative strand. (references)

A viral polymerasease transcribes the negative strand of RNA into leader RNA and five capped and polyadenylated mRNAs, which are translated into proteins. (references)

Since lyssaviruses have a linear single-stranded, negative-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) genome the complementary "positive" strand of RNA must be transcribed before virus replication. (references)

Business

There is also an increased interest locally to develop OSB (Oriented Strand Board), and LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber), and other special lumber products manufacturing, but high start-up costs combined with financial challenges makes these plans hardly realistic, at least for the next 2 years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iran

The Government regards the Baha'i community, whose faith originally derives from a strand of Islam, as a heretical sect, and has fueled anti-Baha'i and anti-Semitic sentiment in the country for political purposes. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

Up-dated copies of these reports may be obtained from the Market Information Center, Enterprise Ireland, Merrion Hall, Strand Road, Sandymount, Dublin 4. (references)

Denmark

For soft wood logs and lumber, the U.S. market position is especially strong on plywood and could be expanded also to Oriented Strand Board (OSB) and hardwood for furniture and floor manufacturing. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "strand": cast strand ♦ crusted strand ♦ mycelial strand ♦ primary strand ♦ secondary strand ♦ strand birds ♦ strand bulging ♦ strand of hair ♦ strand of silk ♦ strand plain ♦ strand plover ♦ strand wolf ♦ vascular strand. Additional references.

Beginning with "strand": Strand-on-the-green.

Ending with "strand": double-strand, four-strand, multi-strand, three-strand.

Albanian

përplas pas shkëmbinjve, ngec në cekëtinë, fije floku, e lë në pozitë të vështirë, breg (bank, bar, brow, coast, height, hill, hump, knoll, shore, side). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هجر (break away, cast aside, dereliction, desert, desertion, disuse, drop out, emigratory, expel, expose, flee, forsake, immigrate, jettison, leave, neglect, quit, relinquish, renounce, scrap, skive, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), ‏نهر (chute, flow, river, stream, wadi), ‏حبل المرسى, ‏تجنح السفينة, ‏ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, ditch, drop, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, neglect, peg, quit, rap, resign, resignation, sign away, suffer, unhand), ‏ساحل (coast, seacoast, seaside, shore), ‏طاق الحبل, ‏ضفيرة شعر, ‏ضفة (bank, edge, shore), ‏جنوح السفينة (run aground), ‏جدل حبلا, ‏رمل ساحلي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съставна част (component, constituent, element, ingredient, member), усуквам (convolve, equivocate, lay, palter, tergiversate, throw, twist), скъсвам (break, fail, plough, pluck, refer, rend, rip down, rip open, rupture, sever, snap, tear, tear away, tear down, tear off, tear out, wear out), черта (base, ingredient, line, score, streak, stria, trace), шнур (cord, flex, lacing, piping, point, pull, twist), кичур (agglomerate, cluster, fascicle, fascicule, forelock, wisp), вплитам (braid, entangle, interlace, intertwist, inweave, weave), наниз (beads, concatenation, rope, string), нишка (clew, clue, fiber, fibre, ply, thread, train), низ (series, string, tissue), жичка (fiber, fibre, ply), елемент (cell, element, ingredient, member, strain, streak, trait, unit), бряг (brink, edge, foreshore, front, shore, side, waterfront), изхвърлям на брега (wash up), дилка (wisp). (various references)

Chinese 

縷 (state in detail, thread), 子线, 一串 . (various references)

Czech

vlákno (fiber, fibre, filament, grain, staple, string, thread), pramen (fountain, head, headspring, source, spring, streak, well, wellspring), pobřeží (beach, coast, coastal area, sea coast, seaboard, seaside, shore), pláž (beach, sands, seashore), břeh (bank, coast, shore, side). (various references)

Danish

streng (bead, billet, bridle, cast strand, chorda, cord, fillet, funiculus, hank, slip, string, tendon, tined chain), spindetraad (continuous strand), spindestof (continuous strand), part (primary strand), lang spån, kordel (primary strand, secondary strand), kabel (cable), høvlspån, enkelttråd, enkeltgarn/enkelttråd, dugt/kordel, dugt (primary strand, stranded wire). (various references)

Dutch

stranden (abort, fail, miscarry), aan de grond lopen. (various references)

Esperanto

grundi. (various references)

Farsi 

گیرافتادن (Pin, Stick, Tangle), بصورت طناب دراوردن , بندرگاه (Harbor, Haven, Port), بهم بافتن وکناردریا, رشته (Branch, Catena, Filament, Ligature, Rank, Reeve, Sequence, String, Suite, System, Thread, Tissue, Tract, Train), رسیدن (Accede, Achieve, Aim, Amount, Arrive, Attain, Come, Gain, Get, Land, Receive), بصخره خوردن کشتی , تنهاگذاشتن , متروک ماندن , لا (Layer), لایه (Layer, Leaf, Pad, Padding, Stratum), کرانه (Littoral, Mete, Shore), کناررود, مجرا (Channel, Conduit, Cullis, Duct, Gullet, Gully, Runway, Tube, Vessel), مسیر (Career, Course, Orbit, Path, Point, Race, Run, Street, Trade, Trajectory, Traverse, Vector), رودخانه (River). (various references)

Finnish

säie (fibre), yksittäisjohdin, rihma (string, thread, yarn), pääsäie (secondary strand), ketju (chain, cordon, line), kehruukuitu (continuous strand), kehruuhahtuva (continuous strand), juoste, alasäie (primary strand). (various references)

French

toron (primary strand, secondary strand), brin. (various references)

German

strang (cord, hank, ply, rope, skein, string, trace, tug), strand (bank, beach, border, edge, foreshore, seashore, seaside, shore, waterfront). (various references)

Greek 

κλώνος (clone), νήμα (clew, clue, crewel, filament, thread, yarn), πλεξούδα (bob, pigtail), εξοκέλλω (go astray, run aground). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעזוב ל� פשו (leave alone, let alone), ל�"תקע (bog, get stuck, jam), ל�"עלות על שרטון, שער�" (hair), חוף (bank of a river, beach, coast, shore), חוט (cord, fiber, fibre, line, staple, string, thread, wire), �'�"יל (festoon, fringe, tassel, tuft), �'�"�" (bank of a river, brim of a glass, shore). (various references)

Hungarian

part (bank, beach, coast, land, margin, rive, shore). (various references)

Indonesian

pantai (beach, coast, ocean front, shore). (various references)

Irish

trá. (various references)

Italian

trefolo (ply). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"り糸 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おりいと. (various references)

Korean 

물가. (various references)

Manx

treigeil (abandon, betray, defect, departure, desert, deviation, evacuate, evacuation, fall away, forsake; repudiation, jilt, lay aside, maroon, rat on, repudiate, throw over), traie (beach, neap tide; cool, neap tide; cool of anger, recede; cooling, retreat, retreating, sandy seashore, shore), lhionnaig, faagail er traie, faagail (abandon, bequeath, depart, descend, disembark, ditch, flitting, forsake, give up, hand down, keep on, leave, leaving, maroon, outgoing, quit, quitting, relinquish, retire, season; vacating, seasoning, throw over). (various references)

Pig Latin

andstray

Portuguese

costa (beach, coast, front, seashore, seaside, shore, waterside). (various references)

Romanian

suferi un eşec (come a cropper, flop, miscarry), plajã (beach, foreshore, links, sand), mal (bank, beach, border, brink, coast, shore), face sã eşueze (defeat, shipwreck), eşua (abort, beach, break down, come down, drop through, fail, fall, founder, ground, miscarry, pile up, run aground, run ashore), şuviţã (tuft), arunca pe coastã, ţãrm (bank, beach, border, brim, brink, clime, foreshore, haven, margin, refuge, region, river side, seaboard, sea-shore, seaside, shore, sphere). (various references)

Russian 

стренга, выброситься на берег, выбросить на берег, берег (bank, beach, coast, seaside, shore, shoreland, shoreside, water front, waterside), прядь (ply), посадить на мель. (various references)

Scottish

tr� igh (beach, empty, pour out, shore, the shore). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

struka (bailiwick, field, metier, profession, vocation), ostaviti na cedilu, obala (coast, coastline, front, shore, waterside), nasukati (ground), žal (beach). (various references)

Spanish

strand, hilo (lead, line, linen, thread, train, trickle, twine, yarn), barra lingote de sección cuadrada (billet, cast strand), brizna (blade, sliver), cabito (primary strand), cable (cable, cord, flex, hawser, lead), cabo (cable, Cape, Corporal, end, ply, point, rope, sergeant, serjeant, stub, stump, tag, tag end, tail, termination, tip), cadena (bond, catena, catenation, chain, cuff, gaol, jail, jess, link, network, pull, ridge, string), conductores trenzados, cordón (aglet, aiglet, aiguillette, bootlace, chord, cord, cordon, flex, lace, shoelace, shoe-lace, string), cordón grueso (secondary strand), encallar (fail, ground, jam, run aground, stick, strike), atar (attach, band, bind, brace, fasten, hitch, knot, lash, lash down, shackle, tether, tie, tie back, tie down, tie on, tie together, tie up, truss, truss up, wad), hebra (filament, grain, needleful, thread, vein), viruta larga, hilo de base (continuous strand), línea (cable, cord, inclination, invention, line, profile, range, rank, row, side, stand), playa (beach, foreshore, front, resort, sands, seashore, seaside, shore, watering place), ramal (branch, branch line, offshoot, section), ribera (bank, riverside, shore), torón (primary strand), trenza (braid, pigtail, plait, queue, tail, tress, twist), varar (beach, ground, run aground, run ashore), vararse, filamento (filament, thread). (various references)

Swedish

tråd (cotton, fiber, fibre, filament, thread, wire, yarn), strand (bank, beach, border, edge, seafront, seaside, shore, waterside), kardel (primary strand, secondary strand). (various references)

Turkish

sahil (bank, beach, coast, coastal, hurst, littoral, sea coast, seaboard, seashore, seaside, shore, waterside), saç tutamı (floccus), saç teli, telini koparmak, karaya oturtmak (ground, pile up, shipwreck, wreck), karaya oturmak (be aground, be stranded, pile up, run aground, run ashore, shipwreck, take ground), kıyı (bank, brink, coast, edge, inshore, littoral, sea coast, shore, side, waterside), iplik (fiber, fibre, ficelle, thread, yarn), ip teli (ropeyarn), halat bükümü, boncuk dizisi (chaplet), başarısızlığa uğramak (bomb, buy it, come a cropper, fail, fall down, flop, mire down), bükmek (bend, buckle, contort, crook, curl, curl up, curve, distort, double, entwine, entwist, flex, fold, fold down, hook, inflect, intwine, spring, throw, twine, twist, wind up, wrench, wrest, wring), aşama (cycle, degree, estate, gradation, grade, half-way house, instance, phase, pitch, process, rank, stage, tier). (various references)

Ukrainian

сісти на мілину (bank, ground, run aground), сукати (twine), частина (Cantle, dividend, half, part, portion, proportion, quantum, quotient, section, segment, share, side, snick), викидатися на берег, викидати на берег (wash up), берег (bank, coast, shore, waterside), пасмо (chain, horseback), плести (entwine, knit, plat, wattle, weave). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sông (bathe, bather, watercourse). (various references)

Welsh

tywyn (seashore), traethell (bank of sand, beach, sand bar, sandbank), traeth (beach, shore), marian (holm, moraine), cainc (air, arm, bough, branch, strain). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "strand": stranded, strandedness, strandednesses, strander, stranders, stranding, strandline, strandlines, strands. (additional references)

Words ending with "strand": interstrand, seastrand. (additional references)

Words containing "strand": interstrands, multistranded, seastrands. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Strand" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saranda, Sarandi, schrund, serranid, srad, srand, srend, srund, standa, starnd, strada, straid, stran, strande, strane, strent, Stroan, trand. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: darns, darts, drats, nards, rands, rants, stand, tarns, trans.

-2 letters: ands, ants, arts, darn, dart, drat, nard, rads, rand, rant, rats, sand, sard, star, tads, tans, tarn, tars, trad, tsar.

-3 letters: ads, and, ant, ars, art, rad, ran, ras, rat, sad, sat, tad, tan, tar, tas.

-4 letters: ad, an, ar, as, at, na, ta.

+1 letter: stander, strands, tundras.

+2 letters: bartends, darndest, daunters, detrains, dextrans, diatrons, distrain, donators, dragnets, grandest, hydrants, indrafts, intrados, mordants, odorants, radiants, randiest, rotundas, sandwort, standard, standers, stinkard, strained, stranded, strander, tandoors, tankards, tanyards, tardyons, tornados, transude, trolands, unitards, untreads.

+3 letters: abradants, acrodonts, adherents, adsorbent, antherids, astringed, attenders, breadnuts, bystander, daneworts, darndests, darnedest, decanters, denatures, detainers, dicentras, dipterans, disrating, distrains, distraint, draftings, draftsman, draftsmen, dragonets, durations, dynatrons, estranged, firsthand, gradients, guardants, handcarts, hardstand, hydranths, indurates, instarred, mandators, neatherds, ordinates, pantdress, quadrants, resinated, resonated, sandstorm, sandworts, saturniid, sauntered, seastrand, sedentary, shorthand, smartened, standards, sternward, stinkards, stranders, stranding, strangled, tamarinds, tandooris, tardiness, tarnished, teardowns, tornadoes, tradesman, tradesmen, transcend, transduce, transited, transuded, transudes, underacts, undereats, unthreads, wristband.