English Explanatory Dictionary

strand

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
  2. The shore or beach of a lake or river.
  3. A small brook or rivulet.
  4. A passage for water; gutter.
  5. A street.
verb
  1. To run aground; to beach.
  2. To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
  3. To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
  4. To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
noun
  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. A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
  5. A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
  6. An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
  7. A nucleotide chain.
  8. A specialization of a senior high school track.
  9. Synonym of track.
verb
  1. To break a strand of (a rope).
  2. To form by uniting strands.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.
  3. An area surrounding the street in central London, Greater London, England.
  4. A municipality of Rogaland, Norway.

Pronunciation

/stɹænd/ [stɹɛənd] en-us-strand.ogg

Word forms

strand strands strond stranding stranded

Etymology

* From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *strand, from Proto-Germanic *strandō (“edge, rim, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand, Icelandic strönd. * (street): Perhaps from the similarity of shape.

Synonyms

abandon desert beach track

Derived words

astrand Rosslare Strand seastrand strandline strandable strandee strander beta strand counterstrand do the strand forestrand Hechtian strand interstrand intrastrand lagging strand leading strand monostrand multistrand sense strand single-strand binding protein slut strand strandless strandlike strand line template strand tetrastrand unstrand workstrand

Translations

Bulgarian: бряг Bulgarian: крайбрежие Catalan: platja Chinese Mandarin: 海滨 Czech: pláž Czech: břeh Danish: strand Dutch: strand Esperanto: strando Estonian: rand Faroese: sandstrond Finnish: ranta French: grève German: Strand Ancient Greek: αἰγιαλός Ancient Greek: ῥηγμίν Hungarian: tengerpart Icelandic: strönd Irish: trá Italian: spiaggia Italian: battigia Italian: bagnasciuga Javanese: pesisir Latvian: pludmale Macedonian: брег Macedonian: пла́жа Macedonian: кра́јбрежје Malay: pantai Māori: tātahi Māori: tuaone Māori: tāhuna Māori: onetai Norwegian: strand Polish: plaża Portuguese: praia Romanian: plajă Romanian: țărm Russian: бе́рег Russian: пля́ж Scottish Gaelic: tràigh Slovak: pláž Slovene: plaža Spanish: playa Swedish: strand Albanian: braktis Finnish: jättää heitteille Finnish: hylätä French: abandonner Ido: strandar Italian: abbandonare Māori: whakamahue Māori: whakarere Portuguese: abandonar Russian: бросить Russian: бросить на произвол судьбы Russian: оставить в беде Russian: подставить Slovak: opustiť Spanish: abandonar
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