Strand
[strænd]
Definition
(noun.) line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels.
(noun.) a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides).
(verb.) drive (a vessel) ashore.
Inputed by Doris--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
(v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).
(n.) The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
(v. t.) To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
(v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
Editor: Woodrow
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Beach, shore, coast, seaboard, seacoast.
v. n. Run aground, get ashore, be wrecked, be cast away.
Typist: Sanford
Definition
n. one of the strings or parts that compose a rope.—v.t. to break a strand: to form by uniting strands.
n. the margin or beach of the sea or of a lake: (Scot.) a rivulet a gutter.—v.t. to run aground: to be stopped.—v.i. to drift or be driven ashore.—p.adj. Strand′ed driven on shore: left helpless without further resource.
Checker: Walter
Examples
- The load is supported by 6 strands, and each strand bears one sixth of the load. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Thank you, said Holmes, I only wished to ask you how you would go from here to the Strand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A good shop for the latter was in the Strand--somewhere in that part which has been rebuilt since. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- One workman is seen cutting a long strand from a hide which he turns round as he cuts, while another man walks backward with this, twisting it as he goes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It requested his attendance, within an hour's time, at a house in Northumberland Street, Strand, which he had never had occasion to enter before. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Strand postmark, and dispatched ten thirty-six, said Holmes, reading it over and over. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The load is supported by 6 strands, and each strand bears one sixth of the load. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It would have been had I been a Martian, but I had to smile at the puny strands that confined my wrists. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The pulp was laid by hand upon moulds made of parallel strands of coarse brass wire; and the making of the pulp by grinding wood and treating it chemically to soften it was experimental. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was braided according to a calendar system--the more important the day the more numerous the strands in the braid. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In one the strands are formed on one type of machine and twisted into a rope on another. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After being twisted the strands are wound around reels in readiness for the second, or laying process. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Now the open mesh cane fabric, having diagonal strands, and other varieties, are made rapidly by machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In case of shipwreck it is often employed to carry a line from the shore to a stranded vessel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Three wires stranded together ran from the central office to each instrument. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Happily this change does not leave me stranded; it but hurries into premature execution designs long formed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I saw him for the third time in a wrecked ship, stranded on a wild, sandy shore. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In addition to the regular force, there was an extra force of two or three operators, and some stranded ones, who were a burden to us, for board was high. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She was content to lie on the shore where fortune had stranded her--and you could see that the career of this old couple was over. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Lily alone was stranded in a great waste of disoccupation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There must have been a constant risk of stranding. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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