strand

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strand1

▶verb (often as adj. stranded)

• 1 drive or leave aground on a shore.

• 2 leave without the means to move from a place.

▶noun literary or Irish the shore of a sea, lake, or large river.

– origin OE, of unknown origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strand2

▶noun

• 1 a single thin length of thread, wire, etc., especially as twisted together with others.

  ■ a single hair or thin lock of hair.

• 2 an element that forms part of a complex whole.

– derivatives
stranded adjective.

– origin C15: of unknown origin.