Strand

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /stɹænd/
• GenAm IPA: /stʃɹænd/, stʃɹɛənd
• Rhymes: -ænd

From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand ("strand, sea-shore, shore"), from Proto-Germanic *strandō ("edge, rim, shore"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- ("strand, border, field"), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- ("to broaden, spread out"). Cognate with West Frisian straun, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand.

Full definition of strand

Noun

1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.Grand Strand
2. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
3. A small brook or rivulet.
4. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.

Verb

1. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
3. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.

Synonyms

• (run aground) beach
• (leave someone in a difficult situation) abandon, desert

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-Germanic *strinô ("strip, strand"), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- ("strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row"); related to Dutch streen ("skein, hank of thread, strand, string"), German Strähne ("skein, hank of thread, strand of hair").

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.strand of spaghettistrand of hair.
4. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
5. (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.strand of truth

Synonyms

Derived terms

• do the strand

Verb

1. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).----