Strand

/strænd/
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Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A single thin length of something: A strand is a single, thin piece of material like hair, wire, or fiber, often one of many that are twisted together.
    • A shore or beach: (Literary/Poetic) A strand is the land at the edge of a body of water, especially a beach.
    • An element or component: A strand can be one of the individual elements, parts, or themes that combine to form a complex whole, such as in a story, argument, or melody.
    • A street name: (Proper noun, capitalized) The Strand is a famous street in central London.

  2. Verb:

    • To leave in a difficult or helpless position: To strand someone or something is to leave them in a place or situation from which they cannot easily escape or be rescued.
    • To drive or run aground: To strand a boat or ship is to cause it to run onto a shore or into shallow water where it becomes stuck.
Usage Examples

  • Noun:

    • A single strand of hair fell across her face.
    • The poet wrote of walking along the lonely strand.
    • The documentary weaves together several different narrative strands.
    • We had dinner at a restaurant on the Strand.

  • Verb:

    • The broken-down car stranded us in the middle of nowhere.
    • The captain was careful not to strand the vessel on the sandbar.
Advanced Usage

  • "To be stranded": To be left in a helpless or isolated position.

    • Hundreds of passengers were stranded at the airport due to the blizzard.

  • "A strand of thought/argument": One particular line of thinking or reasoning within a larger discussion.

    • His speech contained a strong strand of environmental concern.
Variants and Related Words

  • Stranded (adjective): Left in a difficult or isolated position; also, (of wire, etc.) made of strands twisted together.

    • The stranded hikers waited for rescue.
    • The cable uses stranded copper for flexibility.

  • Stranding (noun): The act of leaving someone or something stranded; also, an instance of a marine animal (like a whale) becoming beached.

    • The stranding of the cruise ship was a major news event.
Synonyms
  • Noun (fiber): filament, thread, fiber.
  • Noun (shore): shore, beach, coast, seashore.
  • Verb (abandon): maroon, abandon, desert, leave high and dry.
Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Strand" is not commonly used with particles to form phrasal verbs. The verb typically stands alone.)

Related Idioms
  • "To pick up the strands": To try to reconnect with or resume the various parts of one's life or a project after an interruption.
    • After his illness, he tried to pick up the strands of his career.
Noun
  1. a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
  2. a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
  3. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
  4. a necklace made by a stringing objects together;
    • a string of beads
    • a strand of pearls
  5. line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
  6. a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
    • he tried to pick up the strands of his former life
    • I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously
Verb
  1. bring to the ground
    • the storm grounded the ship
  2. drive (a vessel) ashore
  3. leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
    • the travellers were marooned

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