Meaning

The shore or beach of the sea or ocean..

Definitions by Sense

1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
2. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
3. A small brook or rivulet.
4. (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
5. A street.
6. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
7. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
8. (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.

Example Sentences

Grand Strand

A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.

They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.

We first note that wh-movement can freely strand prepositions in Icelandic, as in the other Scandinavian languages.

In her dissertation, Goldberg (2005) offers a review of diagnostics used to identify verb-stranding VPE to that point, including tests which link the characteristics of English-style VPE (which strands an auxiliary verb) to verb-stranding VPE in languages like Hebrew and Irish.

strand of spaghetti

strand of hair

By 1985, the children's strand had been renamed Children's BBC (CBBC by the mid-1990s), which continued to show animation among other programming in a dedicated time slot.

Word Forms

• strands
• strond
• stranding
• stranded

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When Should You Use Strand?

Use strand when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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