A strand of pearls. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
(The word strand comes from the Old English word for "shore" or "river bank"; in German, Swedish and Dutch, the word means "beach".). From Wordnik.com. [The Big Apple] Reference
The second strand is that of international service. From Wordnik.com. [Friends Service Council - History of Organization] Reference
Can we fail-a three-fold strand is not easily broken. From Wordnik.com. [Our National Equipment] Reference
Each strand is composed of the molecular letters of heredity. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
Try pulling out a thin strand with your fingers and holding the magnet nearby. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: March 7, 2004 - March 13, 2004 Archives] Reference
Also, although they are very similar, the egg strand is from a channeled whelk. From Wordnik.com. [Too drunk to get drunk: an amateur naturalist reports] Reference
So the hair-thin strand of glass fibre can handle five million simultaneous calls. From Wordnik.com. [All the Things You Want to Know about the Communications Revolution] Reference
It sprays the type of mixture you describe, often a fiber such as chopped glass strand is added. From Wordnik.com. [Tirol / Estuco (Stucco)] Reference
Once the strand is cut, the leg starts reaching for the next matching stretch of DNA in the track. From Wordnik.com. [Nano-Spiders: DNA Robots that Could One Day Be Walking Through Your Body | Impact Lab] Reference
Each strand is formed of smaller molecules, nucleotides, that represent the letters of the genetic material. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference
Each strand is then sequenced, and a powerful computer is used to find overlaps so that the pieces can be properly reordered. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Ted Gibson, "The strand is a little more fine and not as full.". From Wordnik.com. [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference
This strand, which is about four inches long, is delicately noosed. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
The end of the strand was the hollow, lonely insanity of a IV Trajana or VI Adjutrix. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Never Sleeps]
Clinging to a long tethered strand, which is precisely where he would have stepped next. From Wordnik.com. [A Handy Hint For All Of You Ren Faire Folk] Reference
Made up of pure nanotubes, the strand is the culmination of nearly a decade of experimentation. From Wordnik.com. [Next Big Future] Reference
This has reference to the first strand, that is population growth outstripping available resources. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
And the next that came to fight on the strand was the King of Lochlann himself, Caisel of the Feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Gods and Fighting Men] Reference
The fibres also become stretchier, so that their toughness - the energy needed to break a strand - rises even more. From Wordnik.com. [Next Big Future] Reference
The sun shone brightly; beached along the strand was a great fleet of warships, full of outlandish warriors scrambling ashore. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
Scattered in groups along the strand were the people of all classes and degrees brought together by the word that a vessel was in peril. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
The last "strand" as linked was started early in June. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-12] Reference
This does not "strand" U.S. troops in Iraq without equipment. From Wordnik.com. [Getting out: Any compromise will be lethal] Reference
A strand is actually dangling from this card. From Wordnik.com. [TelephonyA New Era in the Making] Reference
It's called a strand-in. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2007] Reference
If they're nigh shore when the killers show up the whales'll slide way out over the rocks an 'strand' emselves. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Man to His Mate] Reference
How dare anyone with a strand of Chinese hair think for herself?. From Wordnik.com. [An Emigrant's Hopes For China] Reference
The research is painstaking since there are 5.2 million genes in a strand of anthrax. From Wordnik.com. [Anthrax: Still Looking For Suspects] Reference
Can't be healthy. 9: 19 Massive DNA strand forms where huge ironing board was earlier. From Wordnik.com. [Our Guide to the Opening Ceremonies] Reference
In 2000, the capacity of the same fiber-optic strand has multiplied about 32,000 times. From Wordnik.com. [The Gathering Tech Carnage] Reference
Getting right a human detail like that new mother's errant strand of hair is always its peak. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: Less Is Mueck] Reference
This occasionally happens in winter, when snowstorms strand celebrities by the thousands in Aspen. From Wordnik.com. [Hurts So Good;At Work: What Full Employment Is Li] Reference
They are the product of many editorial sensibilities shepherded and shaped into one continuous strand. From Wordnik.com. [A Sporting Life] Reference
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