STRANDED

isolated, marooned, stranded

(adjective) cut off or left behind; “an isolated pawn”; “several stranded fish in a tide pool”; “travelers marooned by the blizzard”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

stranded

simple past tense and past participle of strand

Adjective

stranded

(of a person) Abandoned or marooned.

(nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.

(of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.

(of expenses or costs) That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.

With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.

(in combination) Having the specified number or kind of strands.

Anagrams

• darndest

Source: Wiktionary


STRAND

Strand, n. Etym: [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G. strähne a skein, lock of hair, strand of a rope.]

Definition: One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

Strand, v. t.

Definition: To break a strand of (a rope).

Strand, n. Etym: [AS. strand; akin to D., G., Sw., & Dan. strand, Icel. strönd.]

Definition: The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. Chaucer. Strand birds. (Zoöl.) See Shore birds, under Shore.

– Strand plover (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover.

– Strand wolf (Zoöl.), the brown hyena.

Strand, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stranded; p. pr. & vb. n. Stranding.]

Definition: To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.

Strand, v. i.

Definition: To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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