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Definition of Strand
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Strand
One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed. To break a strand of (a rope). The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship. To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water. Related Definitions:
Aground, As, At, Be, Beach, Break, Composed, Drift, Drive, Driven, Especially, Hence, High, Is, Lake, Large, Margin, Navigable, Ocean, Of, On, One, Or, Rarely, River, Rope, Run, Sea, Ship, Shore, Strand, Stranded, The, To, Water, Which, Wires |
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Strand Quotations
Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. William C. Bryant By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job. Robert Quine What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? Daphne du Maurier They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again. Walter Crane Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle |
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Strand Translations
strand in Dutch is aan de grond lopen, stranden strand in French is cordon strand in German is Strand strand in Portuguese is costa |
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