Strand

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
strand
    n 1: 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},
       {strand}]
    4: a very slender natural or synthetic fiber [syn: {fibril},
       {filament}, {strand}]
    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
    v 1: leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the
         travellers were marooned" [syn: {maroon}, {strand}]
    2: drive (a vessel) ashore
    3: bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship" [syn:
       {ground}, {strand}, {run aground}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Strand \Strand\, n. [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G.
   str[aum]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.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Strand \Strand\, v. t.
   To break a strand of (a rope).
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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   {Strand birds}. (Zool.) See {Shore birds}, under {Shore}.

   {Strand plover} (Zool.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust.
      of {Plover}.

   {Strand wolf} (Zool.), the brown hyena.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Strand

   1. {AND-parallel} {logic programming} language.  Essentially
   flat {Parlog83} with sequential-and and sequential-or
   eliminated.

   ["Strand: New Concepts on Parallel Programming", Ian Foster et
   al, P-H 1990].  {Strand88} is a commercial implementation.

   2. A query language, implemented on top of {INGRES} (an
   {RDBMS}).  ["Modelling Summary Data", R. Johnson, Proc ACM
   SIGMOD Conf 1981].
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "strand":
      animal fiber, artificial fiber, bank, beach, berm, capillament,
      cast away, cilium, cirrus, coast, coastland, coastline, cobweb,
      denier, embankment, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule,
      flagellum, foreshore, gossamer, ground, hair, hank,
      ironbound coast, lido, littoral, pile up, plage, playa, riverside,
      riviera, rockbound coast, run aground, sands, sea margin, seabank,
      seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shingle,
      shipwreck, shore, shoreline, skein, submerged coast, suture,
      take the ground, tendril, thread, threadlet, tidewater, waterfront,
      waterside, web, wreck
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