rand

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/ɹænd/

noun 9name 7verb 1adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

outside, rejected, steep

The steep rand made it difficult for tourists to exchange their currency at the airport.

VERB + RAND

zone

The protestors were forced to leave the rand zone after the police arrived.

RAND + NOUN

altruism, fen, ky, marsh, objective, paul, r, vegetation

The hiking trail wound through the misty fen and rand, offering stunning views.

PREP.

I lost a thousand rand on that failed business venture last year.

ADV.

truly

The old car ran down the street truly at random, swerving left and right unpredictably.

Definitions

noun

The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.

at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh

Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation.

A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.

They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins

A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.

They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue.

A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.

A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

noun

A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand

The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.

verb

To rant; to storm.

[…] I ſmelt out my noble ſtincker Greenſheild in his Chamber, and as tho my heart ſtringes had bin crackt, I vvept, & thumpd, and thumpd, and rau'd and randed, and raild, and told him hovv my vvife vvas novv grovvne as common as baibery, and that ſhee had hierd her Taylor to ride vvith her to VVare, to meete a Gentleman of the Court.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern Sou

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Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh

Wiktionary

Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation.

Wiktionary

Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.

Wiktionary

In a Fox Business interview on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) alluded to the distinction between private and government responses to offensive speech, but his comments were ambiguous enough that an u

Wiktionary

Tom believes the philosophy of Ayn Rand is truly objective.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, rand is marked as obsolete, UK, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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