Usually means: Thread of fiber or hair.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word strand:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. strand: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. strand, strand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Strand, strand, strand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. strand, the Strand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Strand, strand: Vocabulary.com
  6. Strand, strand: Wordnik
  7. strand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Strand, strand: Wiktionary
  9. strand: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. strand: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. strand: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. strand, the strand: Dictionary.com
  13. strand (n.1), strand (n.2), strand (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. strand: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Strand (London), Strand (UK Parliament constituency), Strand (album), Strand (cigarette), Strand (island), Strand (programming language), Strand, The Strand (Band), The Strand (Providence theater), The Strand (radio), The Strand (radio programme), The Strand, The strand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Strand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. strand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. strand: Rhymezone
  19. Strand (m), Strand, strand (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. strand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Strand: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. strand: Robb: German English
  23. strand: Free Dictionary
  24. strand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Strand: The Word Detective
  26. Strand: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. strand: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strand: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Strand: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. The Strand, strand: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. The Strand, strand: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. strand: A Word A Day
  2. strand: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Strand: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  2. strand: The Folk File
  3. strand: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Strand: Fiberglass Glossary
  4. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Strand: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
noun:  (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
noun:  A small brook or rivulet.
noun:  (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
noun:  A street.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
verb:  (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
noun:  Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
noun:  A string.
noun:  An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
noun:  (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
noun:  (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
noun:  (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
noun:  (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
verb:  (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
verb:  (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (as "the Strand") A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.
noun:  An area surrounding the street in central London, Greater London, England.
noun:  A municipality of Rogaland, Norway.

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