strand

IPA: strˈænd

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.

(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.

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.
The wide dimension of the strand travels helically along the length of the wire.