strand

Meanings

Noun

• The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
• The shore or beach of a lake or river.
• A small brook or rivulet.
• A passage for water; gutter.
• A street (perhaps from the similarity of shape).
• Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
• A string.
• An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
• A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
• A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
• An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
• A nucleotide chain.

Verb

• To run aground; to beach.
• To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
• To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
• To break a strand of (a rope).
• To form by uniting strands.

Related

Similar words

• beach
• abandon, desert

Origin

• From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand, from Proto-Germanic *strandō ("edge, rim, shore"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- ("strand, border, field"), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- ("to broaden, spread out"). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand.
• Origin Unknown. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand. Perhaps the same as strand ; or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran, from Middle High German stren, strene, from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô, from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster-; related to Dutch streen ("skein, hank of thread, strand, string"), German Strähne ("skein, hank of thread, strand of hair").