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IPA transcription: [st'ɹændz]
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Noun
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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”
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line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
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a necklace made by a stringing objects together
“a string of beads”
“a strand of pearls”
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a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
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a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
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a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
Verb
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leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
“the travellers were marooned”
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drive (a vessel) ashore
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bring to the ground
“the storm grounded the ship”
Usage examples
- The endonuclease acts as a homodimer, which facilitates the cleavage of both strands.
- Narrow strands towards the lateral margins, sometimes branched, may represent vascular tissue.
- Kirk orders Sulu to withdraw, which strands Kirk and Spock on the planet.
- The Ikon has an artistic programme consisting of three interdependent strands.
- Such anchors typically comprise tendons of high-tensile bundled steel strands or individual threaded bars.
- Later, 'metaxylem' develops in the strands of xylem.
- Collingwood emphasizes a concept known as the Four Strands.
- Strasserism remains an active position within strands of neo-Nazism.