[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strand \strand\, n. probably fr. d. streen a skein; akin to g.
   straumhne a skein, lock of hair, strand of a rope.
   one of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of
   which a rope is composed.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strand \strand\, v. t.
   to break a strand of a rope.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strand \strand\, n. as. strand; akin to d., g., sw.,  dan.
   strand, icel. str"ond.
   the shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large
   lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. --chaucer.
   1913 webster

   strand birds. zool. see shore birds, under shore.

   strand plover zool., a black-bellied plover. see illust.
      of plover.

   strand wolf zool., the brown hyena.
      1913 webster
see also:
strand birds shore birds shore strand plover plover strand wolf 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strand \strand\, v. t. imp.  p. p. stranded; p. pr.  vb. n.
   stranding.
   to drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a
   ship.
   1913 webster
see also:
stranded stranding 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strand \strand\, v. i.
   to drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship
   stranded at high water.
   1913 webster

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

strand
     n 1: a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole;
          "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "i
          could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
     2: line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are
        twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
     3: a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string
        of beads"; "a strand of pearls"; syn: chain, string
     4: a very slender natural or synthetic fiber syn: fibril, filament
     5: a poetic term for a shore as the area periodically covered
        and uncovered by the tides
     6: a street in west central london famous for its theaters and
        hotels
     v : leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue; "the
         travellers were marooned" syn: maroon
see also:
chain string fibril filament maroon 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

60 moby thesaurus words for "strand":
   animal fiber, artificial fiber, bank, beach, berm, capillament,
   cast away, cilium, cirrus, coast, coastland, coastline, cobweb,
   denier, embankment, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule,
   flagellum, foreshore, gossamer, ground, hair, hank,
   ironbound coast, lido, littoral, pile up, plage, playa, riverside,
   riviera, rockbound coast, run aground, sands, sea margin, seabank,
   seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shingle,
   shipwreck, shore, shoreline, skein, submerged coast, suture,
   take the ground, tendril, thread, threadlet, tidewater, waterfront,
   waterside, web, wreck

[8] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

strand
     
        1. and-parallel logic programming language.  essentially
        flat parlog83 with sequential-and and sequential-or
        eliminated.
     
        "strand: new concepts on parallel programming", ian foster et
        al, p-h 1990.  strand88 is a commercial implementation.
     
        2. a query language, implemented on top of ingres an
        rdbms.  "modelling summary data", r. johnson, proc acm
        sigmod conf 1981.
     
     
see also:
and-parallel logic programming parlog83 strand88 ingres rdbms 

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