A complex of fibers or filaments that have been twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread, or yarn, A wisp or lock of hair, a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides), verb_ bring to the ground, leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue, transitive verb_ To make or form (a rope, for example) by twisting strands together, To break a strand of (a rope, for example), intransitive verb_ To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground, To be stranded, as on a beach. Used of sea animals, To cause (a whale or other sea animal) to be unable to swim free from a beach or from shallow water

Not of one's own or a particular locality, environment, or kind; not native, Reserved in manner; distant or cool, Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer, adverb_ In a strange manner, obsolete Strangely, intransitive verb_ obsolete To be estranged or alienated, obsolete To wonder; to be astonished, transitive verb_ obsolete To alienate; to estrange, verb_ obsolete To be estranged or alienated, obsolete To wonder; to be astonished

One who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance, A person with whom one is not acquainted; one whose name and character are unknown, an individual that one is not acquainted with, adjective_ comparative form of strange_ more strange, verb_ obsolete, transitive To estrange; to alienate

A long narrow strip of pliant material such as leather, A thin flat metal or plastic band used for fastening or clamping objects together or into position, A razor strop, transitive verb_ To fasten or bind with a strap, To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop, To beat or chastise with a strap

highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war, of or pertaining to strategy, Intended to destroy the military potential of an enemy

Plural form of strategy

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war, The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship, A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal

A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river, A trend, course, or drift, as of opinion, thought, or history, A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water, intransitive verb_ Computers To transmit (audio or video content), especially over the Internet, in small, sequential packets that permit the content to be played continuously as it is being received and without saving it to a hard disk, To leave a continuous trail of light, To move or arrive in large numbers; pour

Present participle of stream, adjective_ that stream, (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data, exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts, noun_ the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell, The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams, In tin-mining, the washing of tin ore from the detritus with which it is associated

Plural form of stream, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stream