strand
US: /ˈstɹænd/
UK: /stɹˈænd/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
strand /strænd/- danh từ
- (thơ ca); (văn học) bờ (biển, sông, hồ)
- (thơ ca); (văn học) bờ (biển, sông, hồ)
- ngoại động từ
- làm mắc cạn
- làm mắc cạn
- nội động từ
- mắc cạn (tàu)
- mắc cạn (tàu)
- danh từ
- tao (của dây)
- thành phần, bộ phận (của một thể phức hợp)
- ngoại động từ
- đánh đứt một tao (của một sợi dây thừng...)
- bện (thừng) bằng tao
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
1 a single thin piece of thread, wire, hair, etc: a strand of wool + a few strands of dark hair + She wore a single strand of pearls around her neck.
2 one of the different parts of an idea, a plan, a story, etc: We heard every strand of political opinion. + The author draws the different strands of the plot together in the final chapter.
3 (literary or IrishE) the shore of the sea or ocean, or of a lake or river
+ verb [VN] [usually passive]
1 to leave sb in a place from which they have no way of leaving: The strike left hundreds of tourists stranded at the airport.
2 to make a boat, fish, WHALE, etc. be left on the shore and unable to return to the water: The ship was stranded on a sandbank.
Collocation
1 single thread, hair, etc.
ADJ.
long | thick, thin | loose | single
VERB + STRAND
twist (together), weave (together)
She wove the four coloured strands together into a ribbon.
PREP.
~ of
a loose strand of hair
2 one part of a story, idea, etc.
ADJ.
important, main | different, distinct, separate, various
At the end, all the different strands of the story are brought together.
VERB + STRAND
bring together, draw together, pull together, weave together | disentangle, unravel
STRAND + VERB
come together
PREP.
~ to
There are three main strands to the policy.
| ~ in/within
There are various strands in feminist thinking.
PHRASES
strands of opinion/thought
Concise dictionary
strands|stranded|strandingstrændnoun
+a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
+line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
+a necklace made by a stringing objects together
+a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
+a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
+a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
verb
+leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
