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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Strand \Strand\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Strand \Strand\, verb (used with an object) To break a strand of (a rope).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Strand \Strand\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Strand \Strand\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Stranded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stranding}.] To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Strand \Strand\, verb (used without an object) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
strand
noun
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}]
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
verb: leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue; "the travellers were marooned" [syn: {maroon}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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].
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