(as "the Strand") A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.

An area surrounding the street in central London, England.

A municipality of Rogaland, Norway.

The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.

A small brook or rivulet.

A street.

Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.

A string.

An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

(electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

(broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

(figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

(genetics) A nucleotide chain.

(transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.

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

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

(transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).

(transitive) To form by uniting strands.