1. [n]  a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads" or"a strand of pearls"
2. [n]  line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
3. [n]  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"
4. [n]  a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
5. [n]  a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
6. [n]  a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
7. [v]  leave stranded; put ashore on a desolate island and abandon

1. \Strand\, n. [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G.
   str["a]hne a skein, lock of hair, strand of a rope.]
   One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of
   which a rope is composed.
   

2. \Strand\, v. t.
   To break a strand of (a rope).
   

3. \Strand\, n. [AS. strand; akin to D., G., Sw., & Dan.
   strand, Icel. str["o]nd.]
   The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large
   lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. --Chaucer.
   {Strand birds}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Shore birds}, under {Shore}.
   {Strand plover} (Zo["o]l.), a black-bellied plover. See
      Illust. of {Plover}.
   {Strand wolf} (Zo["o]l.), the brown hyena.
   

4. \Strand\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stranded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Stranding}.]
   To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a
   ship.
   

5. \Strand\, v. i.
   To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship
   stranded at high water.
   

1. 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. A query language, implemented on top of INGRES (an RDBMS). ["Modelling Summary Data", R. Johnson, Proc ACM SIGMOD Conf 1981].

1. Lodge on bars, banks, or overflow plain, as for drift.
2. Bar of sediment connecting two regions of higher ground.