Synonyms for strand
strændstrand

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1. strand

   Bank is a general term for the land along the edge of a water course; it may also denote a raised portion of the bed of a river, lake, or ocean; as, the Banks of Newfoundland. A beach is a strip or expanse of incoherent wave-worn sand, which is often pebbly or full of boulders; we speak of the beach of a lake or ocean; a beach is sometimes found in the bend of a river. Strand is a more poetic term for a wave-washed shore, especially as a place for landing or embarking; as, the keel grates on the strand. The whole line of a country or continent that borders the sea is a coast. Shore is any land, whether cliff, or sand, or marsh, bordering water. We do not speak of the coast of a river, nor of the banks of the ocean, tho there may be banks by or under the sea. Edge is the line where land and water meet; as, the water's edge. Brink is the place from which one may fall; as, the river's brink; the brink of a precipice; the brink of ruin.

   Synonyms:
   bank, beach, border, bound, brim, brink, coast, edge, marge, margin, rim, shore

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1. strandnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   fibril, chain, string, filament

2. strandnoun

   line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

   Synonyms:
   fibril, chain, string, filament

3. chain, string, strandnoun

   a necklace made by a stringing objects together

   "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";

   Synonyms:
   cosmic string, chain, range, range of mountains, chemical chain, bowed stringed instrument, fibril, concatenation, train, chain of mountains, drawstring, filament, drawing string, mountain chain, twine, string, mountain range

4. fibril, filament, strandnoun

   a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

   Synonyms:
   chain, fibril, filament, filum, string

5. strandnoun

   a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)

   Synonyms:
   fibril, chain, string, filament

6. Strandverb

   a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels

   Synonyms:
   fibril, chain, string, filament

7. maroon, strandverb

   leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue

   "the travellers were marooned"

   Synonyms:
   ground, maroon, run aground

8. strandverb

   drive (a vessel) ashore

   Synonyms:
   ground, maroon, run aground

9. ground, strand, run agroundverb

   bring to the ground

   "the storm grounded the ship"

   Synonyms:
   prime, base, run aground, maroon, undercoat, found, establish, anchor, ground

Matched Categories

1. • Abandon
   • Fiber
   • Form
   • Land
   • Line
   • Shore

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. strandnoun

   Synonyms:
   beach, shore, coast, seaboard, seacoast

2. strandverb

   Synonyms:
   run aground, get ashore, be wrecked, be cast away

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "strand":

   component, wick, beach, aspect, axis

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1. List of known nicknames for "Strand":

   Miguel Gil Tertre

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How to use strand in a sentence?

1. Melissa DiMuzio:

   I had missed out on actually hanging my own strand, and I really wanted to participate, it was moving to see just like six or seven light strands going across the street. And so I made the sign.

2. Brianne Sperber:

   People still read hardbacks and books are still collectors' items so we expect Strand will continue to fare well against Amazon.

3. Chief Seattle:

   Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

4. Ari Seth Cohen:

   It can be anything from an elegant woman walking down the street with a strand of pearls to someone who might have made their own clothing and (is) an artist, it's really about that spirit, that vitality, that expression of creativity. It's like a life force that is drawing me to them.

5. Bridget Byrne:

   The work of achieving racial justice in the U.K. is far from over, and that’s what this has revealed, whilst racism has become less socially acceptable to express openly, it is still very much a strand in British culture.