English language

How to pronounce strand in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fibril, filament
Type of fiber, fibre
Has types sarcostyle, barb, chromatid, cobweb, gossamer, hypha, myofibril, myofibrilla, paraphysis, rhizoid
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Synonyms chain, string
Type of necklace


a strand of pearls.
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Synonyms ground, run aground
Type of land
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Synonyms maroon
Type of desolate, abandon, desert, forsake
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Type of shape, pattern, form


he tried to pick up the strands of his former life.
I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously.
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Type of shore
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Type of land
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Type of line
Has types rope yarn, ply

Examples of strand

strand
Comment by comment, kid by kid, strand your mother on her little island of bias.
From the sacbee.com
That made it hard for shoppers to buy even a strand of lights in early December.
From the denverpost.com
Heesch then induced a popup to Will Mack in left field to strand Meier at third.
From the dailyherald.com
At roughly 500 nanometers thick, a strand is barely noticeable to the human eye.
From the latimes.com
Normal cells replicate by dividing DNA into two strands and copying each strand.
From the sciencedaily.com
This is one strand of information for this year's 17 Wisconsin VISTA volunteers.
From the infowars.com
Tsegyal keeps that strand of hair preserved inside a blue, folded paper at home.
From the kansas.com
But only one strand ends up inside the viral coat because that is all that fits.
From the newscientist.com
In the fourth strand of the narrative, a young Victorian cartographer maps them.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • 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"
  • Maroon: leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the travellers were marooned"
  • Line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
  • Drive (a vessel) ashore
  • Chain: a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
  • Ground: bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship"
  • u0160trand (Serbian Cyrillic: u0428u0442u0440u0430u043Du0434) is a popular beach on the Danube river in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia. It is located near the Freedom Bridge, in the city quarter known as Liman.
  • Strand is a 2008 Iranian Experimental film directed by Rouzbeh Rashidi that tells the visual bond between nostalgia and physical reality, the liquid phase produced by the condensation of Stream of consciousness will evolve through the film and manifests itself using images and sounds. ...
  • Strand is an album by The Spinanes, released on February 27, 1996.