strand
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5.5
- noun
- /strænd/
:
hilo
- The novel explores several strands, including love, loss, and redemption.
- narrative strands
- a writing strand
- a reading strand
So you basically have two strands of trans people.
- So you basically have two strands of trans people.
- And another strand is the question of consciousness.
- But this is just what life is in this strand of Protestantism.
- And that to me sounds like they were two, two similar strands in your life.
- We need to bring to bear a number of different strands of knowledge in order to have wisdom.
- So it's got incredible diversity, incredible different cultural strands and threads, huge natural resources.
- We set aside for the purposes of this course, a fourth very important strand that grounds morality in religion.
- It's just as one more strand that to me shows that he did.
- And do those strands also cause him to have the drives?
Examples
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Recovering the character and influence of this pragmatist strand of progressive politics yields historical and civic fruit.
Academic text (2013) -
We need to bring to bear a number of different strands of knowledge in order to have wisdom.
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And when I follow a strand... it leads me to you.
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And another strand is the question of consciousness.
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I also wish to claim that this strand has always been the more genuine one.
Academic text (1992) -
It's not the dominant strand, but it's persistent.
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Social studies constitute but one strand, less than a fifth, in the school curriculum.
Academic text (1992) -
The ELA Common Core Standards are presented in four strands: reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language.
Academic text (2013) -
Researchers working within the two strands greatly respected and collaborated with one another.
Academic text (2011) -
Those are our complementary strands, but there's more.
Synonyms
677
2.8
Main idea in a piece of writing, art, or talk
20
5.9
A theme or idea that appears again and again in stories, paintings and music
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5.0
A smaller idea that adds to a main topic
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3.7
A part of a story that helps the action move forward
Antonyms
Compounds
- South African
A wild animal like a hyena that eats dead animals and lives in southern Africa
- Specialized
A thin part inside a plant stem or leaf that carries water and food to the cells
How Important
Surface Forms
Etymology
Strand for a theme comes from the idea of threads in a rope, where each strand is one part of the whole, so a strand in a story is one thread or line of the plot.