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WORDNET DICTIONARY
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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun strand has 6 senses

Verb strand has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

strandn. [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G. strähne 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.  [1913 Webster]
strandv. t. 
     To break a strand of (a rope).  [1913 Webster]
strandn. [AS. strand; akin to D., G., Sw., & Dan. strand, Icel. strönd.].
     The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
Strand birds. (Zoöl.) See Shore birds, under Shore. -- Strand plover (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover. -- Strand wolf (Zoöl.), the brown hyena.
strandv. t. 
     To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.  [1913 Webster]
strandv. i. 
     To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

strand, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. run aground.
2 tr. (as stranded adj.) in difficulties, esp. without money or means of transport.
--n. rhet. or poet. the margin of a sea, lake, or river, esp. the foreshore.

strand, n. & v.
--n.
1 each of the threads or wires twisted round each other to make a rope or cable.
2 a a single thread or strip of fibre. b a constituent filament.
3 a lock of hair.
4 an element or strain in any composite whole.
--v.tr.
1 break a strand in (a rope).
2 arrange in strands.

Etymology
ME: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

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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Filament

N filament, line, fiber, fibril, funicle, vein, hair, capillament, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili, tendril, gossamer, hair stroke, veinlet, venula, venule, wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute, strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving, beard, ramification, strand, filamentous, filamentiferous, filaceous, filiform, fibrous, fibrillous, thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy, capillary, capilliform, funicular, wire-drawn, anguilliform, flagelliform, hairy, taeniate, taeniform, taenioid, venose, venous.

Land

N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.

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