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▸ 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.
Similar:
chain,
filament,
string,
maroon,
fibril,
seashore,
seasand,
shoreland,
sea-brink,
seastrand,
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Types:
hair strand,
DNA strand,
fiber strand,
rope strand,
wire strand,
pearl strand,
bead strand,
muscle strand,
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