Strand

  1. Proper noun.  A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.
  2. Noun.  (context, now) The flat area of land bordering a body of water; a beach or shore.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) (sense, regarding a vessel) To run aground.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
  5. Verb.  (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
  6. Noun.  Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
  7. Noun.  A string.
  8. Noun.  An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
  9. Noun.  (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
  10. Noun.  (context, broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
  11. Noun.  (rfdef, lang en) .

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.