strand

The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.

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.

The shore or beach of a lake or river.

A small brook or rivulet.

A passage for water; gutter.

A street.

To run aground; to beach.

To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

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

To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.

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.

Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.

A string.

An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

strand of spaghetti

strand of hair

A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

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.