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  7  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Strand  \Strand\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Stranded};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Stranding}.] 
  To  drive  on  a  strand;  hence  to  run  aground;  as  to  strand  a 
  ship. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Strand  \Strand\,  v.  i. 
  To  drift,  or  be  driven,  on  shore  to  run  aground;  as  the  ship 
  stranded  at  high  water. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Strand  \Strand\,  n.  [Probably  fr  D.  streen  a  skein;  akin  to  G. 
  str["a]hne  a  skein,  lock  of  hair,  strand  of  a  rope.] 
  One  of  the  twists,  or  strings,  as  of  fibers,  wires,  etc.,  of 
  which  a  rope  is  composed. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Strand  \Strand\,  v.  t. 
  To  break  a  strand  of  (a  rope). 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Strand  \Strand\,  n.  [AS.  strand;  akin  to  D.,  G.,  Sw.,  &  Dan. 
  strand,  Icel.  str["o]nd.] 
  The  shore,  especially  the  beach  of  a  sea,  ocean,  or  large 
  lake;  rarely,  the  margin  of  a  navigable  river.  --Chaucer. 
 
  {Strand  birds}.  (Zo["o]l.)  See  {Shore  birds},  under  {Shore}. 
 
 
  {Strand  plover}  (Zo["o]l.),  a  black-bellied  plover.  See 
  Illust.  of  {Plover}. 
 
  {Strand  wolf}  (Zo["o]l.),  the  brown  hyena. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  strand 
  n  1:  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" 
  2:  a  complex  of  fibers  or  filaments  that  are  twisted  together 
  to  form  a  thread  or  a  rope  or  a  cable 
  3:  a  necklace  made  by  a  stringing  objects  together;  "a  string 
  of  beads"  or  "a  strand  of  pearls"  [syn:  {chain},  {string}] 
  4:  a  very  slender  natural  or  synthetic  fiber  [syn:  {fibril},  {filament}] 
  5:  a  poetic  term  for  a  shore  (as  the  area  periodically  covered 
  and  uncovered  by  the  tides) 
  6:  a  street  in  west  central  London  famous  for  its  theaters  and 
  hotels  [syn:  {Strand}] 
  v  :  leave  stranded;  put  ashore  on  a  desolate  island  and  abandon 
  [syn:  {maroon}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Strand 
 
  1.  {AND-parallel}  {logic  programming}  language.  Essentially 
  flat  {Parlog83}  with  sequential-and  and  sequential-or 
  eliminated. 
 
  ["Strand:  New  Concepts  on  Parallel  Programming",  Ian  Foster  et 
  al  P-H  1990].  {Strand88}  is  a  commercial  implementation. 
 
  2.  A  query  language,  implemented  on  top  of  {INGRES}  (an 
  {RDBMS}).  ["Modelling  Summary  Data",  R.  Johnson,  Proc  ACM 
  SIGMOD  Conf  1981].




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