strand

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɹænd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stɹænd/, [stɹɛənd]

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• Rhymes: -ænd

From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), 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 straun, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand.

strand (plural strands)

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

   Grand Strand

2. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
3. A small brook or rivulet.
4. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
5. A street (perhaps from similarity of shape)

strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

1. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
3. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

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

• (run aground): beach
• (leave someone in a difficult situation): abandon, desert

Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streen (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”).

strand (plural strands)

1. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
2. A string.
3. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

   strand of spaghetti

   strand of hair.

4. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
5. (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
6. (figuratively) A sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

   strand of truth

   • 2004, David Wray, Literacy: Major Themes in Education, Taylor & Francis →ISBN, page 78

     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.

7. (genetics) A nucleotide chain.

• See also Thesaurus:string

• do the strand

Note: many languages have particular words for “a strand of <substance>” that are different for each substance. The translations below refer to strands in general. You might find a more appropriate translation under the word for the substance itself.

strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

1. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
2. (transitive) To form by uniting strands.

• Arndts, drants

strand (plural strande, diminutive strandjie)

1. beach

From Old Norse strǫnd.

• IPA^(key): /stran/, [sd̥ʁɑnˀ]

strand c (singular definite stranden, plural indefinite strande)

1. beach
2. shore, seashore
3. seaside

strand

1. imperative of strande

• IPA^(key): /strɑnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɑnt

strand n (plural stranden, diminutive strandje n)

1. beach, strand

• zandstrand

strand

1. first-person singular present indicative of stranden
2. imperative of stranden

From German Strand.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃtrɒnd]

strand (plural strandok)

1. beach
2. open-air bath

• strandol
• strandpapucs

From stranda (“to run aground”).

• IPA^(key): /strant/
• Rhymes: -ant

strand n (genitive singular strands, nominative plural strönd)

1. running aground, stranding

• stround, stronde

From Old English strand.

strand (plural strandes)

1. a beach or shoreline

• Scots: strand
• English: strand

From Old Norse strǫnd

strand f or m (definite singular stranda or stranden, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)

1. a beach or shore

• nakenstrand
• sandstrand
• strande
• strandlinje

strand

1. imperative of strande

• “strand” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse strǫnd. Akin to English strand.

• IPA^(key): /strɑnd/, /strɑnː/

strand f (definite singular stranda, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)

1. a beach or shore

• nakenstrand
• sandstrand
• strande
• strandlinje

• “strand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *strandō.

strand n

1. beach
2. shore

• Middle English: strand
  • Scots: strand
  • English: strand
• Old French: estrande, estran

Akin to Old Norse strǫnd.

strand n

1. beach

From Old Swedish strand, from Old Norse strǫnd, from Proto-Germanic *strandō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt-.

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strand c

1. a beach (not necessarily sandy)

• strand in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)