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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
strand
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beached/stranded whale (=one that is stuck on land)
▪ The beached whales are quite obviously very distressed.
a piece/length/strand of wire
▪ The pieces of wire he’d cut were too short.
a strand/wisp of hair (=a thin piece of hair)
▪ She brushed away a strand of hair from her eyes.
passengers are stranded (=are unable to continue their journey)
▪ At least 1,000 passengers were stranded at the airport because of the storm.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complementary
▪ Non-radioactive oligonucleotide duplexes were prepared the same way by mixing 2 pmol each of the complementary strands.
▪ The labelled Watson and unlabelled complementary strand were mixed in a concentration ratio of 1:2, respectively.
different
▪ But if the different strands can be gradually disentangled, the situation becomes easier.
▪ The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life.
▪ It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition.
▪ It will be instructive therefore to examine some of these different strands within Marxism.
▪ He introduced a quite different strand: I was a slow learner.
▪ When considering the notion of choice in relation to institutional care there are a number of different strands which require separate examination.
important
▪ For the next twelve years, its reports were to form an important strand in the formulation of policy.
▪ As mentioned above, there were three important strands: the Salafiyyists, the Djazara'a group and the Afghanistes.
▪ An important strand in the association's work had always been the development of contacts with writers.
▪ How can the account of authority here offered be thought to represent important strands in Western thought?
long
▪ Twined about the fingers of his free hand were long strands of a woman's hair.
▪ If the long strands are lifted, this forms a diamond design, which is shown in Fig. 3.
▪ He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed.
▪ He was a mousy man: long thin strands of hair protruded erratically from under his steel helmet.
▪ A neurone is a cell with a small centre from which stem long strands called axons and dendrites.
▪ And there are long strands of fixed points, a bit like beads on long strings.
main
▪ Here two main theoretical strands can be isolated.
▪ The other main strand in nineteenth-century feminism accepted the idea of women as the natural guardians of the moral order.
▪ I intend therefore to pursue three main strands.
other
▪ There are other strands which have rejected this account of self and autonomy.
▪ The other strand concerns the local geological history.
▪ After all there were other strands to the case, loose ends which needed to be tied up.
▪ In various other places and strands of the New Testament we find similar unselfconscious allusions to the three persons in the deity.
▪ The other main strand in nineteenth-century feminism accepted the idea of women as the natural guardians of the moral order.
▪ Two other significant strands of Russia' s colonial expansion into Siberia deserve mention.
▪ The other strand of the community's policy, a carbon tax, now looks unlikely to be approved by ministers.
separate
▪ Each separate strand is simple, whether it is of cotton, cane or clay.
▪ There were in fact two separate but overlapping strands in the social-purity alliance.
▪ The computer, to cite another example, required no fewer than six separate strands of knowledge: binary arithmetic.
single
▪ T m measurements were made using total single strand concentrations of 18 and 8µM for duplexes 1 and 4 respectively.
▪ A fiber or strand mile is a mile-long, single strand of fiber optic wire.
▪ A single strand of technological evolution connects electronic sewing machines, electronic typewriters, and flexible electronic workstations.
▪ A persistent, recurrent theme; a single strand of ancient lore in the weave.
▪ Only one strand of the linkers ligated to the cDNA and the single strand gap was repaired with Taq polymerase prior to amplification.
▪ The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance.
▪ If a really soft fabric is required, the backing yarn can be as fine as a single strand of 2/30.
thin
▪ Carefully snip into the paper along its length, to form a row of thin strands joined at one end.
▪ A thin strand of smoke swept back over Ezra and vanished in the wind.
▪ He was a mousy man: long thin strands of hair protruded erratically from under his steel helmet.
▪ A few thin strands of black to grey hair and a nose that looked like badly applied putty.
▪ It rolled towards High Brook in thin, vaporous strands, giving the house a spectral aspect.
upper
▪ As shown in Fig. 2A, two footprints were observed either with the lower or the upper strand labelled.
various
▪ They locate the various strands in feminist thinking, and show the conceptual problems involved in combining them.
▪ But it was not as straight forward as that, and we need to unravel the various strands of influence and persuasion.
▪ The winners encompassed all the various strands of business.
▪ These various strands of information work with the computer are combined in some of the newest developments in user education in schools.
▪ The various strands of his life were beginning to come together.
▪ To prevent opposition forces coalescing, the authorities went to great length to separate the various strands of artistic and intellectual thought.
■ NOUN
dna
▪ The two DNA strands in the sample would, of course, usually relocate their partners and reform the paired double helix.
▪ The other way is that it can be duplicated into a new DNA strand.
template
▪ For both complexes the additional blockages all occur at, or one nucleotide prior to isolated G residues on the template strand.
▪ This phenomena is consistent with the formation of intrastrand crosslinks between adjacent guanine residues on the template strand.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a strand of silk
▪ Plato draws all the strands of the argument together at the end.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But if they are looking for strands of hope, they should look to Hostetler.
▪ Claude has suggested that there is an exponential relationship between the number of tight junctional strands and transepithelial resistance.
▪ For both complexes the additional blockages all occur at, or one nucleotide prior to isolated G residues on the template strand.
▪ I stared for a long time, without touching anything, wondering why any of it warranted a protective strand of hair.
▪ It is the holder of prepared fleece or flax from which the spinner draws out strands.
▪ We examined the broken ends of the rattan stay and found black spots of mould growing inside the strands.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strand

Strand \Strand\, n. [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G. str["a]hne a skein, lock of hair, strand of a rope.] One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

Strand

Strand \Strand\, v. t. To break a strand of (a rope).

Strand

Strand \Strand\, n. [AS. strand; akin to D., G., Sw., & Dan. strand, Icel. str["o]nd.] The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
--Chaucer.

Strand birds. (Zo["o]l.) See Shore birds, under Shore.

Strand plover (Zo["o]l.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover.

Strand wolf (Zo["o]l.), the brown hyena.

Strand

Strand \Strand\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stranded; p. pr. & vb. n. Stranding.] To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.

Strand

Strand \Strand\, v. i. To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
strand

"shore, beach," Old English strand "sea-shore," from Proto-Germanic *strandas (cognates: Danish and Swedish strand "beach, shore, strand," Old Norse strönd "border, edge, shore," Old Frisian strond, Middle Dutch strant, Dutch strand, Middle Low German strant, German Strand "beach"), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from PIE root *ster- "to stretch out." Strictly, the part of a shore that lies between the tide-marks. Formerly also used of river banks, hence the London street name (1246).

strand

1620s, "to drive aground on a shore," from strand (n.1); figurative sense of "leave helpless," as of a ship left aground by the tide, is first recorded 1837. Related: Stranded; stranding.

strand

"individual fiber of a rope, string, etc.," late 15c., probably from a continental Germanic source akin to Old High German streno "lock, tress, strand of hair," Middle Dutch strene "a skein, hank of thread," German Strähne "a skein, strand," of unknown connection. Perhaps to English via an Old French form.

Wiktionary
strand

Etymology 1 n. 1 The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach. 2 (context poetic archaic or regional English) The shore or beach of a lake or river. 3 A small brook or rivulet. 4 (context UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) A passage for water; gutter. vb. 1 (context transitive nautical English) To run aground; to beach. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert. 3 (context transitive baseball English) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base. Etymology 2

n. 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. 4 (context electronics English) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided. 5 (context broadcasting English) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject. 6 (rfdef: English) 7 ( genetics) A nucleotide chain. vb. (context transitive English) To break a strand of (a rope).

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WordNet
strand

  1. n. 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"

  2. line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

  3. a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"; [syn: chain, string]

  4. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber [syn: fibril, filament]

  5. a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)

  6. a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels

  7. v. leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue; "the travellers were marooned" [syn: maroon]

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Wikipedia
Ștrand

Ștrand is a residential district of Sibiu, Romania, located in the western part of the city.

The district is located around the swimming pool complex of the city, the name deriving from that fact. It is separated into two smaller neighborhoods: Ștrand I and Ștrand II.

Strand (island)

Strand was an island on the west coast of Nordfriesland in the Duchy of Schleswig, which was a fiefdom of the Danish crown. Now, the area belongs to Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.

The island was by the Grote Mandrenke, a huge storm tide that occurred on January 16, 1362. Many villages and towns along the Danish coast, such as Rungholt, were lost. The island of Südfall was separated from the mainland.

In 1634, the Burchardi flood split Strand island into Nordstrand, Pellworm, and Nordstrandischmoor.

Strand (album)

Strand is an album by The Spinanes, released on February 27, 1996.

Strand (UK Parliament constituency)

Strand was a parliamentary constituency in the Strand district of the City of Westminster. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Strand (programming language)

Strand is a high-level symbolic language for parallel computing, similar in syntax to Prolog.

Artificial Intelligence Ltd were awarded the British Computer Society Award for Technical Innovation 1989 for Strand88. The language was created by computer scientists Ian Foster and Stephen Taylor.

Strand (cigarette)

Strand was a brand of cigarettes produced by W.D. & H.O. Wills (part of Imperial Tobacco), launched in 1959 but withdrawn in the early 1960s. The launch was accompanied by a huge television advertising campaign, You're never alone with a Strand. They also ran advertisements in newspapers offering a free pack of Strand cigarettes if you filled in a coupon and sent it in.

Strand (film)

Strand is a 2009 Iranian experimental film directed by Rouzbeh Rashidi that tells the visual bond between nostalgia and physical reality, the liquid phase produced by the condensation of Stream of consciousness will evolve through the film and manifests itself using images and sounds. Strand is a personal journey in memory and time using human models, landscapes and cityscapes of Iran in order to explore the emotion hidden in past and future.

Štrand

Štrand ( Serbian Cyrillic: Штранд) is a popular beach on the Danube river in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia. It is located near the Freedom Bridge, in the city quarter known as Liman.

Its name derives from the German word Strand, meaning simply beach (In German, an initial s is usually pronounced as sh when it comes before a consonant, as in the Yiddish- English shtick, thus, the Serbian š correctly bears a diacritic reflecting this). The word for this place became popular in modern times in the population of Novi Sad and used because there is not an originally beach at the sea.

Strand (surname)

Strand (surname) may refer to:

  • Asle Strand, Norwegian luger
  • Andreas Strand (1889–1958), Norwegian gymnast in the 1908 Summer Olympics
  • Anne Lilia Berge Strand, Norwegian artist and DJ
  • Arne Strand, Norwegian journalist and politician for the Labour Party
  • David Strand, American academic
  • Embrik Strand (1876–1947), Norwegian zoologist, entomologist and arachnologist
  • Erik Welle-Strand (1916–2001), Norwegian mining engineer and World War II resistance member
  • Hans E. Strand (1934–2000), Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party
  • Johan Martin Jakobsen Strand (1873–1935), Norwegian farmer and politician for the Liberal Party
  • Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, (1907–2000), a Danish astronomer
  • Kjetil Strand, Norwegian handball player
  • Knut Olaf Andreasson Strand (1887–1980), Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party
  • Lars Iver Strand, Norwegian football player
  • Lars Ketil Strand, Norwegian forester
  • Lasse Strand, Norwegian football (soccer) defender
  • Mark Strand, an American poet
  • Morten Strand, Norwegian footballer and politician for the Conservative Party
  • Odd Strand (1925–2008), Norwegian civil servant
  • Olaf Strand (1899–1997), Norwegian middle distance runner
  • Pål Strand, Norwegian football
  • Paul Strand, an American modernist photographer
  • Richard Strand, an American linguist studying Afghanistan
  • Roar Strand, Norwegian football player
  • Tove Strand, Norwegian director and former politician for the Labour Party
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Usage examples of "strand".

Without the interfering strands hanging in her eyes she was better able to see to her task and her fingers moved with agile speed and efficiency even though the blood continued to ooze, though with much less frequency as the wound was stitched closed.

Somewhere deep inside me, strands of DNA were coding for alanine and tryptophan and other amino acids, building up the proteins of chemical memory for my brain to read.

Strand and Cockspur Street, Cabrillo pulled up next to the Ural and kicked at Amad with his boot.

And if this model were correct, then a pre-training right IMHV lesion, already shown not to be amnestic by itself, would disrupt this flow, and post-training LPO lesions, otherwise amnestic, would no longer be so because the memory would have been stranded in the left IMHV.

The peg-rhizoids, which are peculiar to the group, converge under shelter of the amphigastria to the midrib, beneath which they form a wick-like strand.

They felt the slow, painful growth of the artist, the fumbling toward maturity of expression, the upheaval that had taken place in Paris, the passionate outburst of his powerful voice in Arles, which caught up all the strands of his years of labour.

Rui Fernandez, reinforced by some 200 of his men who had succeeded in escaping from the stranded armadilla, now turned his attention to the settlement.

She stole to the graveyard to pray her silent prayers over her weaving: aster, asphodel, rosemary, and rue, each bound into a chaplet tied with three strands of her silvery hair.

Painfully tentative tugs at its contractile strands brought the dense, dark axial bar safely down into the pit.

There had been men, such as Lord Fawn on one side and Mr Boffin on the other, who had found themselves stranded disagreeably,--with no certain position,--unwilling to sit behind a Treasury bench from which they were excluded, and too shy to place themselves immediately opposite.

De ommuring bood nog steeds geen bescherming aan de krottenwijk La Perla, die dicht bij het strand was ontstaan.

Once more, she was Miss Capel, whose name was only to familiar to the Employment Bureau and not a stranded nonentity.

They had brought old sail canvas from the carack and made shelters along the strand, where beef was still roasting and the ale granted them by their captain was doled out sparingly.

Pendergast recognized it as a human nerve strand, undoubtedly from the cauda equina at the base of the spinal cord.

On the other hand, a writer in the Strand Magazine points out that an insurance investigator some years ago gathered a list of 225 centenarians of almost every social rank and many nationalities, but the majority of them Britons or Russians.