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1. Strand
   [cigarette] Strand was a brand of cigarettes produced by W.D. & H.O. Wills (part of Imperial Tobacco), launched in 1959 but withdrawn in the early 1960s. The launch was accompanied by a huge television advertising campaign, You`re never alone with a Strand. They also ran advertisements in ne...
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2. Strand
   [programming language] Strand is a high-level symbolic language for parallel computing, similar in syntax to Prolog. Artificial Intelligence Ltd were awarded the British Computer Society Award for Technical Innovation 1989 for Strand88. The language was created by computer scientists Ian Foster and Stephen Taylor. ...
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3. Strand
   [UK Parliament constituency] Strand was a parliamentary constituency in the Strand district of the City of Westminster. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ==History== The constituency was created by the Redistribution of...
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4. 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...
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5. Strand
   [album] Strand is an album by The Spinanes, released on February 27, 1996. ==Track listing== ...
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6. Strand
   [island] Strand was an island on the west coast of Nordfriesland in modern Germany. Strand was formed by a stormflood on January 16, 1362 where many villages and towns, Rungholt among them, were lost and Südfall island was as well separated from the mainland. Strand island was later split b...
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7. Strand
   One of the wires that made up a stranded conductor.
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8. Strand
   Strand Electric, famous English stage lighting company, now represented all over the world. Once boasted that every theatre in the world owned at least one piece of Strand equipment. Founded in 1914 by two London theatre electricians - Arthur Earnshaw and Phillip Sheridan.
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9. Strand
   The SHORE or BEACH of the ocean or a large lake. The land bordering any large body of water, especially a sea or an arm of the ocean.
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10. Strand
    A filament. Also, the single or each of the two chains of nucleotides that make up RNA and DNA.
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11. strand
    [n] - a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) 2. [n] - a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels 3. [n] - a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole 4. [n] - line consisting of a complex of fi...
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12. Strand
    See tow.
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13. strand
    that produced in the second laying process by the twisting of strands Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • one of the component parts which when twisted or laid up together form a rope.Strands are made of yarns or wires and are twisted together in a d...
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14. Strand
    Strand noun [ Probably from Dutch streen a skein; akin to German strähne 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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15. Strand
    Strand transitive verb To break a strand of (a rope).
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16. Strand
    Strand noun [ Anglo-Saxon strand ; akin to D., G., Swedish , & Danish strand , Icelandic strönd .] The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. Chaucer. Strand ...
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17. Strand
    Strand transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stranded ; present participle & verbal noun Stranding .] To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
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18. Strand
    Strand intransitive verb To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
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19. strand
    <geography> The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. Strand birds. ... <zoology> The brown hyena. ... Origin: AS. Strand; akin to D, G, Sw, & Dan. Strand, Icel. Strond. ... (26 Nov 1998) ...
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20. strand
    noun 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`
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21. Strand
    noun a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
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22. strand
    noun a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
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23. strand
    (strand) a thread or fiber or a structure resembling one. antisense strand the strand of a double-stranded nucleic acid that is complementary to the sense strand; in DNA it is the template on which the mRNA is synthesized. coding strand , sense strand ...
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24. Strand
    • (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed. • (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope). • (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water. • (v. t.) To drive on a strand; hence, to run agr...
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25. Strand
    (from the article `motion picture, history of the`) ...which exhibitors quickly accommodated by replacing their storefronts with large, elegantly appointed new theatres in the major urban centres (one ...
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