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.

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Strand Quotations

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
William Morris

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

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

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
Bob Hawke

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.
William Lilly

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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