strand meaning
EN
[stɹænd] [stʃɹænd, stʃɹɛənd] [-ænd] 
US WStrand
- Strand may refer to:
- The flat area of land bordering a body of water, a beach, or shoreline
- Strand swamp, a type of swamp habitat in Florida
EN Strand 
- NounPLstrandsSUF-and
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
- Grand Strand
- (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
- A string.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- strand of spaghetti
- strand of hair.
- (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- (figuratively) A sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- strand of truth
- (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
- VerbSGstrandsPRstrandingPT, PPstranded
- (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
- (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.
- (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
- (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Tourian's poem exhibits a central strand of the Catholic tradition which has been suppressed in Armenian religious life but needs to be resurfaced.
- This complex unwinds duplex DNA while synthesizing pentaribonucleotide RNA primers for use by the lagging strand polymerase (gp43).
- The boat's wake left two strands of white water that glistened in the moonlight.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of strand in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "strand" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.