strands
Meaning of strands
verb, 3rd person present
- leave (someone) without the means to move from somewhere.
two of the firm's trucks are stranded in France
they were stranded by the blizzard
- drive or leave (a boat, sailor, or sea creature) aground on a shore.
the ships were stranded in shallow water
quantities of sea creatures were left stranded
- the shore of a sea, lake, or large river.
a heron glided to rest on a pebbly strand
Old English (as a noun), of unknown origin. The verb dates from the early 17th century.
plural noun- a single thin length of something such as thread, fibre, or wire, especially as twisted together with others.
strands of coloured wool
late 15th century: of unknown origin.
Information about strands
- The singular form of strands is: strand.
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Hyphenation of strands
strands
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- strands is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
strands synonyms
Meaning an area of sandy, stony, or rocky land bordering and level with the sea:
Meaning the land along the edge of a sea, lake, or other large body of water:
Meaning a pebbly or sandy shore, especially by the sea between high- and low-water marks:
Meaning a loose granular substance, typically pale yellowish brown, resulting from the erosion of siliceous and other rocks and forming a major constituent of beaches, river beds, the seabed, and deserts:
Meaning the part of a shore between high- and low-water marks, or between the water and cultivated or developed land:
Meaning the line along which a large body of water meets the land:
Meaning the part of the land adjoining or near the sea:
Meaning a place by the sea, especially a beach area or holiday resort:
Meaning a region bordering the sea; the coastline:
Meaning a part of a town that borders the sea or a lake or river:
Meaning the side or part of an object that presents itself to view or that is normally seen or used first; the most forward part of something:
Meaning the edge of or area adjoining a sea, lake, or river:
Meaning a region lying along a shore:
Meaning a beach by the sea, especially at a fashionable resort:
Meaning a long, thin strand of cotton, nylon, or other fibres used in sewing or weaving:
Meaning a slender threadlike object or fibre, especially one found in animal or plant structures:
Meaning a thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed:
Meaning the measurement or extent of something from end to end; the greater of two or the greatest of three dimensions of an object:
Meaning a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole:
Meaning material consisting of threads of cotton, hemp, or other material twisted together to form a thin length:
Meaning a thickness or layer of a folded or laminated material:
Meaning a small or slender fibre:
Words that rhyme with strands
ands, SAANDs, abands, armbands, backbands, bands, bellybands, blackbands, browbands, contrabands, crossbands, disbands, fahlbands, greasebands, hairbands, hatbands, haybands, headbands, househusbands, husbands, neckbands, noncontrabands, nosebands, passbands, platbands, probands, rainbands, ribands, ribbands, robands, salbands, sarabands, shirtbands, sidebands, spacebands, sweatbands, trainbands, turbands, waistbands, watchbands, wavebands, wristbands, duplicands, multiplicands, radicands, deodands, fands, argands, brigands, ligands
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