Definition of "strand" []

• The land bordering a body of water; a beach. (noun)
• To drive or run ashore or aground. (verb-transitive)
• To bring into or leave in a difficult or helpless position: The convoy was stranded in the desert. (verb-transitive)
• Baseball To leave (a base runner) on base at the end of an inning. (verb-transitive)
• Linguistics To separate (a grammatical element) from other elements in a construction, either by moving it out of the construction or moving the rest of the construction. In the sentence What are you aiming at, the preposition at has been stranded. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "(The word strand comes from the Old English word for "shore" or "river bank"; in German, Swedish and Dutch, the word means "beach".)"
• "Once the strand is cut, the leg starts reaching for the next matching stretch of DNA in the track."
• "Also, although they are very similar, the egg strand is from a channeled whelk."