strand

IPA: strˈænd

noun

  • The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
  • (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
  • A small brook or rivulet.
  • (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
  • A street.
  • Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
  • A string.
  • An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
  • (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
  • (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
  • (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
  • (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
  • A surname.
  • (as "the Strand") A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.
  • An area surrounding the street in central London, Greater London, England.
  • A municipality of Rogaland, Norway.

verb

  • (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
  • (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
  • (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
  • (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
  • (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
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Examples of "strand" in Sentences

  • One strand of hair is quite long.
  • He has blond strands in his hair.
  • At the end the two strands converge.
  • Her weapon is a long strand of silver wire.
  • The paper is the kind used to wrap strands of hair for perms.
  • They also braided a strand of hair from the top of their head.
  • Is a cord of three strands much stronger than that of a single strand
  • It may change the relative desirability of solid versus stranded wires.
  • Blond hair is the result of having little pigmentation in the hair strand.
  • Try pulling out a thin strand with your fingers and holding the magnet nearby.
  • Also, although they are very similar, the egg strand is from a channeled whelk.
  • The wide dimension of the strand travels helically along the length of the wire.
  • It sprays the type of mixture you describe, often a fiber such as chopped glass strand is added.
  • Once the strand is cut, the leg starts reaching for the next matching stretch of DNA in the track.
  • The antisense strand is loaded into the RISC complex and links the complex to the mRNA strand by base-pairing.
  • Each strand is then sequenced, and a powerful computer is used to find overlaps so that the pieces can be properly reordered.
  • (The word strand comes from the Old English word for "shore" or "river bank"; in German, Swedish and Dutch, the word means "beach".)
  • The nicked strand is then degraded to a point beyond the mismatch and the resulting gap filled; the mismatched base is thereby replaced with the correct base.
  • So a certain strand of German culture rejected such aspects of the Enlightenment as individual rights and a more liberal, democratic political tradition, while embracing the notion of rational, bureaucratic management of society.

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