Word Finder - strand

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The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.

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Grand Strand

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The shore or beach of a lake or river.

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A small brook or rivulet.

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A passage for water; gutter.

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A street (perhaps from the similarity of shape).

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To run aground; to beach.

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To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

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To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

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Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.

He smiled, brushing a strand of hair from her cheek.

Mrs. Byrne was dressed in a black jersey dress with a single strand of pearls around her neck.

He brushed a strand of hair from her face and stroked her cheek.

This is the first indication of a conducting foliar strand or leaf bundle and forms an approach to leptom, though it is not so specialized as the leptom of the higher Phaeophyceae.

In many Pteridophytes thi first leaf is formed very early, and the first vascular strand i!

She tucked a strand of hair back into her topknot and followed him into the forest.

In other cases the trace passes inwards and joins the central hydrom strand, so that a connected water-conducting system between stem and leaf is established.

At the eastern end of the Strand a memorial with statue by Hamo Thorneycroft of William Ewart Gladstone was unveiled in 1905.

Among the sculptor's principal statues are " The Bishop of Carlisle " (1895; Carlisle Cathedral), " General Charles Gordon " (Trafalgar Square, London), " Oliver Cromwell " (Westminster), " Dean Colet " (a bronze group - early Italianate in feeling - outside St Paul's School, Hammersmith), " King Alfred " (a colossal memorial for Winchester), the " Gladstone Monument " (in the Strand, London) and " Dr Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London " (bronze, erected in St Paul's Cathedral).

The Chapel Royal, Savoy, near the Strand, was rebuilt by Henry VII.

Somerset House (1776-1786), a massive range of buildings by Sir William Chambers, surrounding a quadrangle, and having its front upon the Strand and back upon the Victoria Embankment, occupies the site of a palace founded by the protector Somerset, c. 1548.

He plucked a strand of grass and stuck it in his mouth.

At the age of eighteen, on the 25th of February 1639, he married Margaret, daughter of Lord Coventry, with whom he and his wife lived at Durham House in the Strand, and at Canonbury House in Islington.

In those intended for alternating currents, the main current through the movable coil, whether consisting of one turn or more than one turn, is carried by a wire rope, of which each component strand is insulated by silk covering, to prevent the inductive action from altering the distribution of the current across the transverse section of the conductor.

The direct line of the thoroughfare is interrupted after Piccadilly Circus (the term " circus " is frequently applied to the open space - not necessarily round - at the junction of several roads), but is practically resumed in the Strand, with its hotels, shops and numerous theatres, and continued through the City in Fleet Street, the centre of the newspaper world, and Ludgate Hill, at the head of which is St Paul's Cathedral.

Like the chief armnerve, this strand runs through the lophophore, parallel indeed with the former except near the middle line, where it passes ventrally to the oesophagus.

The old-established collection of second-hand book-shops in Holywell Street was only abolished by the widening of the Strand, and a large proportion then removed to Charing Cross Road.

In the Strand, and more especially in Fleet Street and its offshoots, are found the offices of the majority of the most important daily newspapers and other journals.

The Strand was filled with noble mansions washed by the waters of the Thames, but the street, if street it could be called, was little used by pedestrians.

Such, for example, are the Lang-lay, locked-coil and flattened strand rope.

He gently brushed a stray strand of soft hair away from her cheek.

To determine the best timing and color results, do a strand test before coloring your whole head.

To do this, cut a small strand from the darkest or grayest section of the hair, saturate the strand with color, wait 10 minutes, and check the strand.

Since each hair shaft grows at its own rate, the body is constantly in different phases, making it impossible to determine how fast a singular strand is growing.

Spray each section with a flexible hold hairspray and then take a medium thick strand from the outside first section and pull to the inside third section.

The question is one x, Stout axile strand.

Repeat by taking a medium thick strand from the third section and pulling over to the first section.

He tugged on a strand of her hair and grinned.

Males and females are about 5 mm and 10 mm long, respectively, with the diameter of a strand of thread.

The strand typically consists of 32 beads shaped into a necklace.

They are a strand of 32 beads, three different colors to let a woman know what day she is on in her cycle.

You can choose a single dainty strand of pearls or chain or you can really dress it up with two or three necklaces in different lengths.

Bring the left strand of floss over strand two, then behind strand two and back in front of strand one.

Continue down the row by using the same strand you knotted over strand two to form a knot on strand three.

Continue until you have made a knot on each strand across the row.

When the row is complete, the strand that was at the far left at the beginning of the step is now at the far right.

Hold one end of each strand, and tie them all together with an overhand knot.

Grab the floss to the far left, the first strand, and pull it over the strand to its immediate right, the second strand.

Grab the end of the first strand and tuck it under the second strand.

Pull the rest of the first strand through to complete a kind of loop.

Pull that second strand taught as you push the knot toward the clipboard, until it is nice and tight.

Now, continue to the third strand, putting the second strand off to the left, out of the way.

Continue until you reach the end of the row and the first strand has become the far right strand.

Start over with the new far right strand, repeating the exact same steps.

At the end of the bracelet, take two strands and tie with the third strand to form a knot.

To use the pattern generator, simply click each "strand" until the color you want appears.

Keeping an even amount of tension on each strand, fold the left strand over the middle, so that the left strand becomes the middle.

The differentiation of the stelar stereom, which usually takes the form of a sclerized pericycle, and may extend to the endocycle and parts of the rays, takes place in most cases later than the formation of the primary vascular strand.

In young birds both oviducts are almost equal in size, but the right soon degenerates into an insignificant strand.

In constructing a hot-wire instrument for the measurement of high frequency currents it is necessary to make the working wire of a number of fine wires placed in parallel and slightly separated from one another, and to rpass the whole of the current to be measured through this strand.