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Accounts and stories
anecdote
another
anti-narrative
backstory
be another storyidiom
bodice-ripper
cautionary tale
horror story
in medias res
kompromat
legend
legendary
lore
reminiscence
rundown
running commentaryphrase
scenario
semi-legendary
write something up
yarn

strandnoun[C] (COAST)

literary
a shore: （海、湖或大河的）滨，岸
The winds are blowing from the low sea strand.
Irish English
a beach:
The alarm was raised when locals walking on the strand spotted the roof of the tractor in the surf.
We spent the day relaxing on Portstewart Strand.

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Coasts & beaches
barrier reef
beachcomb
beachcomber
beachcombing
beachfront
esplanade
frontage
groin
low-lying
prom
riviera
sand
shingly
shore
swash
the Amalfi Coast
the seashore
the seaside
tide pool
tombolo
strand
verb[ T ]
uk /strænd/ us /strænd/

strandverb[T] (ABANDON)

to leave someone in a place that they cannot get away from because of a problem such as not having any transport or money:
The rebels blockaded the road, stranding dozens of American tourists.
Heavy snow has closed the mountain passes and stranded local residents.

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Experiencing difficulties
be
be (caught) between a rock and a hard placeidiom
be climbing the wallsidiom
be for the high jumpidiom
be/come up against a brick wallidiom
fall into something
flounder
frying pan
fumble
fun
jungle
leg
not have a leg to stand onidiom
on a razor edgeidiom
out of the frying pan into the fireidiom
pickle
pressed
rocky
sticky
weed

strandverb[T] (IN BASEBALL)

In baseball, if a team strands a base runner(= a player who has reached one of the positions that players must reach before they can score a point), the base runner is still at one of the bases and has not scored when the inning(= period of play) ends:
The White Sox stranded twelve base runners and lost the game 1–0.
Hammond retired the next two batters to strand runners on first and second base.

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Baseball & rounders
1-2-3 inning
ahead
alley
around the hornidiom
at bat
bomb
curve
heater
hit the ball out of the parkidiom
hitting coach
home plate
home stand
horsehide
sac
solo
spitter
split-fingered fastball
splitter
squeeze play
swing

strand | American Dictionary

strand
noun[ C ]
us/strænd/
a fiber or group of fibers twisted together that form one part of a length of rope, cord, thread, etc., or a single string, hair, or line of objects:
a strand of hair
She wore three strands of beads around her neck.
fig. There are many strands (= types) of pacifism.

Examples of strand

strand
The phosphodiester backbone is represented by a dot for the strands in a 5k-3k orientation and by a cross for the 3k-5k strands.
Now we pull these strands together to discuss what the model suggests about preferences over institutional arrangements.
Their approaches vary, ranging over descriptive, theoretical, engineering and experimental strands.
The composition of new strands is dictated only by base-pairing efficacy and reactive substrate availability.
To begin, first consider a situation in which two closed, circular strands or chains wind around each other in space.
Because the complementary strands are physically retained in proximity, the chains do not diffuse apart, favouring reassociation.
They can be found in three strands of the orchestral texture: the brass, woodwind/strings, and piano.
Serrano coworkers have recently extended the de novo designed peptide with the aim of forming a triple stranded - sheet.
However, a required conclusion from the electrophoretic data was that the structure was antiparallel, so that the exchanging strands did not cross at the centre.
She outlines the relationship between modernity and the ' popular ', one of the principal thematic strands that links the essays together.
Overall, this is a vibrant and passionate book that nicely weaves together its strands of description and normative interpretation.
We have somewhat artificially subdivided them into three main strands.
I reached a big iceberg that seems stranded.
In the base of the microvillus, the cylinder splits into strands.
By their very nature, frameworks of standards include political, cultural, and educational aspects underpinned by different strands of theory and research.
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Collocations withstrand

strand

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individual strands
We have an economy whose individual strands are becoming ever more closely interwoven.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
long strand
One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.
multiple strands
These results suggest that because multiple policies interact, environmental policies must have multiple strands in order to replace incentives to further land expansion.
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