| n. | 1. | One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed. | |||||||||
| v. t. | 1. | To break a strand of (a rope). | |||||||||
| n. | 1. | The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
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| v. t. | 1. | To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; | |||||||||
| v. i. | 1. | To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; | |||||||||
| Noun | 1. | strand - 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. | strand - line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable | |
| 3. | strand - a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"; | |
| 4. | strand - a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | |
| 5. | strand - a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) | |
| 6. | Strand - a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels | |
| Verb | 1. | strand - leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue; "the travellers were marooned" Synonyms: maroon |
| 1. | Strand - 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. | Strand - A query language, implemented on top of INGRES (an RDBMS). ["Modelling Summary Data", R. Johnson, Proc ACM SIGMOD Conf 1981]. |