The difference between Abandon and Strand
When used as nouns, abandon means a yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions, whereas strand means the shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
When used as verbs, abandon means to give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions, whereas strand means to run aground.
check bellow for the other definitions of Abandon and Strand
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Abandon as a verb (transitive):
To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
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Abandon as a verb (transitive):
To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
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Abandon as a verb (transitive):
To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
Examples:
"Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing."
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Abandon as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To subdue; to take control of.
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Abandon as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
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Abandon as a verb (transitive):
To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
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Abandon as a verb (transitive):
To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
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Abandon as a noun:
A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences.
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Abandon as a noun (obsolete):
abandonment; relinquishment.
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Strand as a noun:
The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
Examples:
"Grand Strand"
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Strand as a noun (poetic, archaic, _, or, _, regional):
The shore or beach of a lake or river.
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Strand as a noun:
A small brook or rivulet.
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Strand as a noun (UK, _, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland):
A passage for water; gutter.
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Strand as a noun:
A street (perhaps from similarity of shape)
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Strand as a verb (transitive, nautical):
To run aground; to beach.
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Strand as a verb (transitive, figuratively):
To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
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Strand as a verb (transitive, baseball):
To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
Examples:
"Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair."
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Strand as a noun:
Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
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Strand as a noun:
A string.
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Strand as a noun:
An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
Examples:
"strand of spaghetti"
"strand of hair''."
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Strand as a noun (electronics):
A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
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Strand as a noun (broadcasting):
A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
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Strand as a noun (figurative):
A sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
Examples:
"strand of truth"
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Strand as a noun (genetics):
A nucleotide chain.
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Strand as a verb (transitive):
To break a strand of (a rope).
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Strand as a verb (transitive):
To form by uniting strands.