strand
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 →
2) A strand is one part of a story, plan or argument. tree →
3) To strand someone means to leave them stuck somewhere with no way to leave; they are stranded. tree →
4) (literary) A strand is a beach or the shore. tree →
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 →
- The rope is made of three strands twisted together. tree →
- DNA has two strands. tree →
- The storm stranded us at the airport overnight. tree →
- The sailors were stranded on a desert island. tree →
- A whale was stranded on the beach. tree →
- The book weaves several strands into one story. tree →
- At that moment a young pike suddenly jumped out of the water and fell on the strand. tree →
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.
- Kneading pulls the dough's gluten proteins into long stretchy strands, like a net of tiny balloons.
- Kneading lines up gluten proteins into long stretchy strands that trap the gas like balloons.
- Checking times and planning ahead stops you being stranded alone at night.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «strand» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.