strand

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A single thin piece of something like hair, thread, or rope.

   A loose strand of hair fell across her face.

2. 2
   noun

   One part of a larger story, plan, or idea.

   The novel weaves together several strands of the same family's history.

3. 3
   verb

   To leave someone in a place they cannot get away from.

   The storm stranded hundreds of passengers at the airport overnight.

Common collocations

• vascular strand Adjective + noun

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…

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