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Strand Stranded Stranding Noun Hair Wire Thread Single

word strand
definition
noun
A strand of something such as hair, wire, or thread is a single thin piece of it.
She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes.
...high fences, topped by strands of barbed-wire.
He began to feed in the spaghetti, carefully separating the strands.
A strand of a plan or theory is a part of it.
There had been two strands to his tactics.
He's trying to bring together various strands of radical philosophic thought.
verb
If you are stranded, you are prevented from leaving a place, for example because of bad weather .
The climbers had been stranded by a storm.
The airport had to be closed, stranding tourists.
inflections strandsstrandingstranded
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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