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English Dictionary: strand	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for strand
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
strand n 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" line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"; Synonym(s): chain, string, strand a very slender natural or synthetic fiber Synonym(s): fibril, filament, strand a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels v leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the travellers were marooned" Synonym(s): maroon, strand drive (a vessel) ashore bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship" Synonym(s): ground, strand, run aground
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strand \Strand\, n. [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G. str[84]hne 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strand \Strand\, v. t. To break a strand of (a rope).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strand \Strand\, n. [AS. strand; akin to D., G., Sw., & Dan. strand, Icel. str[94]nd.] The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. --Chaucer. {Strand birds}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shore birds}, under {Shore}. {Strand plover} (Zo[94]l.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of {Plover}. {Strand wolf} (Zo[94]l.), the brown hyena.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strand \Strand\, v. i. To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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].