English

Proper noun

Strand

1. A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street

See also

• Strand, London on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Etymology

From Middle High German [Term?]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtʀant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

Strand m ‎(genitive Strands or Strandes, plural Strände)

1. beach

Declension

Derived terms

• Strandwächter

Norwegian

Proper noun

Strand

1. A municipality in Rogaland, Norway

English

Noun

strand ‎(plural strands)

1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.

   Grand Strand

2. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
3. A small brook or rivulet.
4. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
5. A street (perhaps from similarity of shape)

Translations

Verb

strand ‎(third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

1. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
3. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

   Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.

Synonyms

• (run aground): beach
• (leave someone in a difficult situation): abandon, desert

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand ‎(“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran ‎(“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene ‎(“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-Germanic *strinô ‎(“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- ‎(“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streen ‎(“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne ‎(“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”).

Noun

strand ‎(plural strands)

1. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
2. A string.
3. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

   strand of spaghetti

   strand of hair.

4. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
5. (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
6. (figuratively) A sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

   strand of truth

   • 2004, David Wray, Literacy: Major Themes in Education, Taylor & Francis (ISBN 9780415277129), page 78

     She responds to both questions in writing and checks her answer on the fact question. Her suspicions confirmed about the importance of the two names, Miranda vows to pay close attention to this strand of the story as she continues to read.

7. (genetics) A nucleotide chain.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:string

Derived terms

• do the strand

Translations

Note: many languages have particular words for “a strand of <substance>” that are different for each substance. The translations below refer to strands in general. You might find a more appropriate translation under the word for the substance itself.

Verb

strand ‎(third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

1. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).

Afrikaans

Noun

strand ‎(plural strande, diminutive strandjie)

1. beach

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse strǫnd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stran/, [sd̥ʁɑnˀ]

Noun

strand c (singular definite stranden, plural indefinite strande)

1. beach
2. shore, seashore
3. seaside

Derived terms

Inflection

Verb

strand

1. imperative of strande

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɑnt/
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

strand n ‎(plural stranden, diminutive strandje n)

1. beach, strand

See also

• zandstrand

Verb

strand

1. first-person singular present indicative of stranden
2. imperative of stranden

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Strand.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃtrɒnd]

Noun

strand ‎(plural strandok)

1. beach
2. open-air bath

Declension

Derived terms

• strandol
• strandpapucs

References

1. ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2

Middle English

Alternative forms

• stround

Etymology

From Old English strand.

Noun

strand (plural strandes)

1. a beach or shoreline

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse strǫnd

Noun

strand m, f ‎(definite singular stranda or stranden, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)

1. a beach

Derived terms

• sandstrand

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse strǫnd

Noun

strand f ‎(definite singular stranda, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)

1. a beach

Derived terms

• sandstrand

Old English

Etymology

Akin to Old Norse strǫnd.

Noun

strand n

1. beach

Old Saxon

Etymology

Akin to Old Norse strǫnd.

Noun

strand n

1. beach

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse strǫnd

Pronunciation

Noun

strand c

1. a beach (not necessarily sandy)

Declension

Related terms

References

• strand in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)