strand
英[strænd]
美[strænd]
- n. 线；串；海滨
- vt. 使搁浅；使陷于困境；弄断；使落后
- vi. 搁浅
- n. (Strand)人名；(英、芬、丹、挪、瑞典)斯特兰德；(德)施特兰德
英英释意
- 1. 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. line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- 3. a necklace made by a stringing objects together;
- "a string of beads"
- "a strand of pearls";
- 4. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- 5. a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)