Look up: stranding

1. Stranding
   The act of a cetacean coming onto land, either alive or dead.
   Found on http://www.robins-island.org/dolphins_gl
   
   
2. stranding
   Accidentally running aground,or being forced aground,by extraordinary circumstances outside the usual course of navigation. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
3. Stranding
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strand
   Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
   
   
4. stranding
   (from the article `rope`) The fibres are combed or carded, then slivered and spun into yarn by the processes used in the textile industry. Strands, also known as readies, are ...
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/168
   
   
5. stranding
   (from the article `cetacean`) Stranding is a phenomenon that has long fascinated people, and there is fossil evidence of mass strandings from before humans evolved. Many stranded ...
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6. stranding
   fabrication process to bundle together several strands to make a stranded conductor
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7. Stranding
   The running of a ship or other vessel on shore; it is either accidental or voluntary. It is accidental where the ship is driven on, shore by the winds and waves; it is voluntary where she is run on shore, either to preserve her from a worse fate, or for some fraudulent purpose. It is of great conseq...
   Found on http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/s184.htm
   
   
8. STRANDING
   The running of a ship on shore on a beach.
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