The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Strand \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.
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   Strand birds. (Zool.) See Shore birds, under Shore.

   Strand plover (Zool.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust.
      of Plover.

   Strand wolf (Zool.), the brown hyena.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Strand \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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Strand \Strand\, v. i.
   To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship
   stranded at high water.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Strand \Strand\, n. [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G.
   str[aum]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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Strand \Strand\, v. t.
   To break a strand of (a rope).
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

strand
    n 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"; [syn: chain, string,
       strand]
    4: a very slender natural or synthetic fiber [syn: fibril,
       filament, strand]
    5: a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered
       and uncovered by the tides)
    6: a street in west central London famous for its theaters and
       hotels
    v 1: leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the
         travellers were marooned" [syn: maroon, strand]
    2: drive (a vessel) ashore
    3: bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship" [syn:
       ground, strand, run aground]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

Strand

   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].