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Meanings of strand in English

Portuguese
colar
Catalan
cadena
Spanish
cadena

A necklace made by a stringing objects together;

        colar
        Portuguese
        filamento
        Catalan
        filament

        A very slender natural or synthetic fiber.

              filamento
              Portuguese
              encalhar

              Bring to the ground.

                    encalhar
                    Portuguese
                    encalhar

                    Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue.

                          encalhar
                          Synonyms
                          Examples for "maroon"
                          Examples for "maroon"
                          1
                          He escaped in a stolen maroon 03 KE registered Ford Focus car.
                          The Irish Times
                          2
                          Then the colors soften and turn into amber and lilac and maroon.
                          The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections fro...
                          3
                          She glanced past him to the big maroon automobile at the gate.
                          Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures; Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund
                          4
                          As many as 200 maroon-robed monks were arrested at the gilded shrine.
                          Reuters
                          5
                          Sparky the Sun Devil is maroon and bright yellow, the school colors.
                          The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
                          Usage of strand in English
                          1
                          Renaturation activity was ATP dependent; however strand exchange activity was ATP independent.
                          Pubmed
                          2
                          The experience of Welby's grandfather forms the second strand of the story.
                          Radio NZ
                          3
                          The sea was a deep violet, all the way to the strand.
                          The Irish Times
                          4
                          Connaughton says organisations often pick a strand of diversity to work on.
                          The Irish Times
                          5
                          Or not quite neatly; the strand had caught on my right ear.
                          Outlander
                          6
                          Crop insurance is the major strand in the U.S. farm safety net.
                          Reuters
                          7
                          Yes, yes, says Magda, pulling a leaden strand back from her forehead.
                          How the soldier repairs the gramophone
                          8
                          The problem here is that the brake strand is not locked off.
                          Climbing Magazine
                          9
                          Joining him on the strand she said, 'Nothing untoward with the captain.
                          Forge of Darkness
                          10
                          Wool is similarly dense but each strand is fine and grows longer.
                          BBC
                          11
                          He and another student began collecting sand samples along beach strand lines.
                          The world without us
                          12
                          A crowd had gathered on the far end of the curving strand.
                          Orb Sceptre Throne
                          13
                          But it was also inseparable from a particular strand of apocalyptic techno-capitalism.
                          The Guardian
                          14
                          The first and second strand of cDNA were synthesized through reverse transcription.
                          Pubmed
                          15
                          The authoritarian impulse in the anti-democratic strand becomes clearest at this point.
                          The South African
                          16
                          Virginia's apricot had become a strand in the pattern of the ball-room.
                          Balloons
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                          Translations for strand
                          Spanish
                          cadena
                          Strand through the time
                          Strand across language varieties
                          Ireland
                          Common
                          United States of America
                          Common
                          United Kingdom
                          Less common