strand

noun

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

   “Grand Strand”

   “A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.”

   “They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.”

2. (archaic, dialectal, poetic)The shore or beach of a lake or river.
3. A small brook or rivulet.
4. (British, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal)A passage for water; gutter.
5. A street.
6. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
7. A string.
8. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

   “strand of spaghetti”

   “strand of hair”

9. A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
10. A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

    “By 1985, the children's strand had been renamed Children's BBC (CBBC by the mid-1990s), which continued to show animation among other programming in a dedicated time slot.”

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

    “strand of truth”

    “The explanation draws equally from other contemporary strands of political and social theory.”

    “She responds to both questions in writing and checks her answer on the fact question. Her suspicions confirmed about the importance of the two names, Miranda vows to pay close attention to this strand of the story as she continues to read.”

    “The concept of a combined authority headed by an elected Mayor is a key strand in current transport development, and is driving a new generation of projects such as bringing rail connectivity to Portishead and stations served by the Mid-Cornwall Metro.”

12. A nucleotide chain.
13. (Philippines, formal)A specialization of a senior high school track.
14. (Philippines, informal)Synonym of track.

verb

1. (transitive)To run aground; to beach.
2. (figuratively, transitive)To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
3. (figuratively, transitive)To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

   “Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.”

4. (transitive)To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.

   “We first note that wh-movement can freely strand prepositions in Icelandic, as in the other Scandinavian languages.”

   “In her dissertation, Goldberg (2005) offers a review of diagnostics used to identify verb-stranding VPE to that point, including tests which link the characteristics of English-style VPE (which strands an auxiliary verb) to verb-stranding VPE in languages like Hebrew and Irish.”

5. (transitive)To break a strand of (a rope).
6. (transitive)To form by uniting strands.

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.
3. (countable, uncountable)An area surrounding the street in central London, Greater London, England.
4. (countable, uncountable)A municipality of Rogaland, Norway.