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  1. noun The land bordering a body of water; a beach.
  2. transitive verb To drive or run ashore or aground.
  3. transitive verb To bring into or leave in a difficult or helpless position: The convoy was stranded in the desert.
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  • At the far end of the strand were a cluster of so-called "suicide rocks," where for a small fee a customer might be clamped, there to await the inrushing tide. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 06 - June 1995
  • Most intriguing is the third narrative strand, which is in the form of Ada's annotation of her father's novel—a brilliant take on Ada's work with Babbage on the Analytical Engine. —  FSF,August2005
  • Plugging the ornament in (one needs to remove a single light bulb from the strand, then slide the male end from the ornament into the female end on the strand) activates the light effect on the "Klingon Bird Of Prey." —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Following nuclear import of the viral preintegration complex, the host chromosomal DNA becomes accessible to the viral cDNA and the second step of the integration process, namely the strand-transfer step takes place. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Following nuclear import of the PIC, the host chromosomal DNA becomes accessible to the viral cDNA and the second step of the integration process, namely the strand-transfer step that is catalyzed by an IN tetramer, takes place —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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thread ·  coil ·  wisp ·  patch ·  cord ·  ribbon ·  bit ·  curl ·  fringe ·  braid ·  filament ·  streak

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strand:   strands ·  stranding ·  stranded
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English.
  2. Middle English strond.

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  1. from Middle English strand, strond, from Anglo-Saxon strand = Middle Dutch strande, Dutch strand = late Middle High German strant, German strand = Icelandic strönd (strand-) = Swedish Danish strand, border, edge, coast, shore, strand; root unknown.
  2. = D. Middle Low German G. stranden = Icelandic Swedish stranda = Danish strande; from the noun.
  3. With excrescent d, for *stran (Scots strawn), from Dutch streen, a skein, hank of thread, = Old High German streno, Middle High German strene, stren, German strähne, a skein, hank; root unknown.
  4. from strand, n.
 

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