strand

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole

   We tried to pick up the strands of our former life.

2. 2
   noun

   The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.

   Grand Strand

3. 3
   verb

   To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.

   We first note that wh-movement can freely strand prepositions in Icelandic, as in the other Scandinavian languages.

4. 4
   noun

   An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

   strand of spaghetti

5. 5
   noun

   A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

   By 1985, the children's strand had been renamed Children's BBC (CBBC by the mid-1990s), which continued to show animation among other programming in a dedicated time slot.

6. 6
   noun

   An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

   strand of truth

7. 7
   noun

   a necklace made by a stringing objects together

8. 8
   noun

   line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streng (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”). Co…