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# strand

«strand» in Mova's school dictionary: **a single thin thread, hair or wire, or one of several…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a strand, strands); verb (strand, strands, stranded, stranding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A strand is a single thin thread, hair or wire, or one of several twisted together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#m1)

2) A strand is one part of a story, plan or argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#m2)

3) To strand someone means to leave them stuck somewhere with no way to leave; they are stranded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#m3)

4) (literary) A strand is a beach or the shore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, DNA is made of two strands twisted into a double helix, and ropes are made of strands. In stories, characters get stranded on desert islands or at airports. In school subjects, a course can have several strands (for example the number strand in maths). Whales sometimes strand themselves on beaches.

### examples

- A strand of hair fell across her face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#x1)
- The rope is made of three strands twisted together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#x2)
- DNA has two strands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#x3)
- The storm stranded us at the airport overnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#x4)
- The sailors were stranded on a desert island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#x5)
- A whale was stranded on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#x6)
- The book weaves several strands into one story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#x7)
- At that moment a young pike suddenly jumped out of the water and fell on the strand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/#x8)

### note

Countable noun. Stranded is the common adjective: stranded on an island. A strand of hair is one hair; strands of spaghetti. The Strand is also a famous street in London.

### In the corpora

- [Pull one thread and the whole web moves, like a spider's web when one strand is touched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food/5/)
- [Kneading pulls the dough's gluten proteins into long stretchy strands, like a net of tiny balloons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/2/)
- [Kneading lines up gluten proteins into long stretchy strands that trap the gas like balloons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/10/)
- [Checking times and planning ahead stops you being stranded alone at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/263-clocks-calendars-and-planning/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «strand» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/strand/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.