stranded en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈstɹændɪd/
Etymology
Etymology tree English strand Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English stranded From strand + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
The 9.17 a.m. diesel train from Fraserburgh to Aberdeen, Scottish Region, was blocked by a snow drift just north of Newmachar Station on January 19. The 57 passengers were stranded for 15 hours.
1960 March 14, “Notes and News: Diesel Train Stranded in Snow Drift”, in Railway Magazine, page 213:I found myself stranded, lunchless, on the sea-front[…]
1904, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs. Bathurst:
- (not-comparable, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
- (not-comparable, of a word or phrase that can take a complement) Not having any expressed complement.
- (not-comparable, of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
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(not-comparable, 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.
- (not-comparable) Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
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(in-compounds, not-comparable) Having the specified number or kind of strands.
single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded
Deriveds
strandedness · multistranded · bistranded · intrastranded
Relateds
unstrandable · stranding · strandable
Translations (26)
ka გარიყული (of a person) · fi hylätty (of a person) · sv strandad (of a vessel) · nl gestrand (of a vessel) · it incagliato (of a vessel) · es abandonado (of a person) · nl litzedraad (of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires) · ru сидящий на мели (of a vessel) · fi karilla (of a vessel) · fr abandonné (of a person) · it abbandonato (of a person) · es trenzado (of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires) · ang āseten (of a vessel) · fi upotettu (expenses or costs which have become unrecoverable or difficult to recover) · es varado (of a vessel) · cs stočený (of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires) · sv strandsatt (of a person) · ru выброшенный на берег (of a vessel) · fr échoué (of a vessel) · fi punottu (of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires) · sv tvinnad (of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires) · hu megfeneklett (of a vessel) · sk uviaznutý (of a vessel) · bg усукан (of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires) · eo grundinta (of a vessel) · bg заседнал (of a vessel)