strand

名词 n. 动词 v.
/stɹænd/|/stɹand/    /stɹænd/|/stɹæːnd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
    — Grand Strand
  2. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
  3. The shore or beach of a lake or river. archaic,dialectal,poetic
  4. A string.
  5. A small brook or rivulet.
  6. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
    — strand of spaghetti
  7. A passage for water; gutter. Northern-England,Scotland,UK,dialectal
  8. A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
  9. A street.
  10. 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.
  11. An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread. figuratively
    — strand of truth
  12. A nucleotide chain.
  13. A specialization of a senior high school track. Philippines,formal
  14. Synonym of track. Philippines,informal
动词 v.
  1. To run aground; to beach. transitive
  2. To break a strand of (a rope). transitive
  3. To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert. figuratively,transitive
  4. To form by uniting strands. transitive
  5. To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.; To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base. figuratively,transitive
    — Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.
  6. To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it. transitive
    — We first note that wh-movement can freely strand prepositions in Icelandic, as in the other Scandinavian languages.

词形变化

strands plural strond alternative,obsolete strands present,singular,third-person stranding participle,present stranded participle,past stranded past strands plural strands present,singular,third-person stranding participle,present stranded participle,past stranded past

词源

词源 1
* From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *strand, from Proto-Germanic *strandō (“edge, rim, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, German Strand (“beach”), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish strand (“beach”), Faroese strond (“beach”), Icelandic strönd (“beach”).
* (street): Perhaps from the similarity of shape.
词源 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-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streng (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”). Compare also Old High German stranga (“strand of hair”), modern German Strang (“strand, thread, cord”).
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