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.

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