strand
noun
- single fiber from a piece of fabric
verb
- abandon without easy return
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /stɹænd/ / /stɹand/ / [stɹeənd] ~ [stɹɛənd]
name
Etymology: So called after the north strand (i.e. shore) of the river Thames.
- A surname.
- A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.
- An area surrounding the street in central London, Greater London, England.
- A municipality of Rogaland, Norway.
noun
Etymology: 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-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streng (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”). Compare also Old High German stranga (“strand of hair”), modern German Strang (“strand, thread, cord”).
- 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.
“strand of spaghetti”
“strand of hair”
- A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
“By 1985, the children's strand had been renamed Children's BBC (CBBC by the mid-1990s), which continued to show animation among other programming in a dedicated time slot.”
- An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
“strand of truth”
“The explanation draws equally from other contemporary strands of political and social theory.”
- A nucleotide chain.
- A specialization of a senior high school track.
- Synonym of track.
verb
Etymology: 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-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streng (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”). Compare also Old High German stranga (“strand of hair”), modern German Strang (“strand, thread, cord”).
- To break a strand of (a rope).
- To form by uniting strands.