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.