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rand en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ɹænd/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɹæːnd/ (Australia)
• /ɹand/ (British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard)
• /ˈɹɐnt/ (General-South-African, sometimes)
• /ɾand/ (Scotland, Wales)
• /ɹɛnd/ (New-Zealand)
• (US) audio
• [ɹʷeːnd] ~ [ɹʷɛːnd] Australia, æ-raising
• [ɹʷeənd] ~ [ɹʷɛənd] General American, Canada, æ-raising

Etymology

From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.

Meanings

1. The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
   • […] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep. 2013, Peter D. Moore, European Mires, page 288:
   • Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation. 1963, Field Studies [Council of Great Britain], volume 1, page 132
   • Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils. 1984, Herman W. Gabriel, Glossary of Landscape & Vegetation Ecology for Alaska, page 64, entry "lagg":
   • at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh
2. (dialectal, obsolete) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
   • They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins 1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
3. (UK, dialectal, rare) A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
   • They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue. 1867, Anderson, Rhymes, page 44
4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
5. (qualifier:basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

Forms

Coordinates

lagg

rand en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ɹænd/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɹæːnd/ (Australia)
• /ɹand/ (British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard)
• /ˈɹɐnt/ (General-South-African, sometimes)
• /ɾand/ (Scotland, Wales)
• /ɹɛnd/ (New-Zealand)
• (US) audio
• [ɹʷeːnd] ~ [ɹʷɛːnd] Australia, æ-raising
• [ɹʷeənd] ~ [ɹʷɛənd] General American, Canada, æ-raising

Etymology

Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand. The sense of currency is because of gold that was extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks.

Meanings

1. A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
2. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.

Forms

Translations (19)

ar رَانْد (numismatics of South Africa) · nn rand (numismatics of South Africa) · de Rand (numismatics of South Africa) · af rand (numismatics of South Africa) · hi रेंड (numismatics of South Africa) · pl rand (numismatics of South Africa) · ru ранд (numismatics of South Africa) · cmn 蘭特 /兰特 (numismatics of South Africa) · bg ранд (numismatics of South Africa) · pl zbocze (a rocky slope) · pt rand (numismatics of South Africa) · da rand (numismatics of South Africa) · bg склон (a rocky slope) · ja ランド (numismatics of South Africa) · el ραντ (numismatics of South Africa) · ko 랜드 (numismatics of South Africa) · ms rand (numismatics of South Africa) · nb rand (numismatics of South Africa) · sw randi (numismatics of South Africa)

wikipedia: Witwatersrand

rand en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /ɹænd/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɹæːnd/ (Australia)
• /ɹand/ (British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard)
• /ˈɹɐnt/ (General-South-African, sometimes)
• /ɾand/ (Scotland, Wales)
• /ɹɛnd/ (New-Zealand)
• (US) audio
• [ɹʷeːnd] ~ [ɹʷɛːnd] Australia, æ-raising
• [ɹʷeənd] ~ [ɹʷɛənd] General American, Canada, æ-raising

Etymology

See rant.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To rant; to storm.
   • […] I ſmelt out my noble ſtincker Greenſheild in his Chamber, and as tho my heart ſtringes had bin crackt, I vvept, & thumpd, and thumpd, and rau'd and randed, and raild, and told him hovv my vvife vvas novv grovvne as common as baibery, and that ſhee had hierd her Taylor to ride vvith her to VVare, to meete a Gentleman of the Court. c. 1601 (date written), Thomas Decker [i.e., Thomas Dekker]; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], North-ward Hoe. […], London: […] G[eorge] Eld, published 1607, →OCLC, Act IV, signatures F, verso – F2, recto:

Forms

rand en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

• /ɹænd/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɹæːnd/ (Australia)
• /ɹand/ (British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard)
• /ˈɹɐnt/ (General-South-African, sometimes)
• /ɾand/ (Scotland, Wales)
• /ɹɛnd/ (New-Zealand)
• (US) audio
• [ɹʷeːnd] ~ [ɹʷɛːnd] Australia, æ-raising
• [ɹʷeənd] ~ [ɹʷɛənd] General American, Canada, æ-raising

Etymology

Shortened from random.

Meanings

1. A random number.

Forms