The difference between Seashore and Strand

When used as nouns, seashore means the coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean, whereas strand means the shore or beach of the sea or ocean.


Strand is also verb with the meaning: to run aground.

check bellow for the other definitions of Seashore and Strand

  1. Seashore as a noun:

    The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean.

  2. Seashore as a noun:

    The foreshore, the strip of land between low water and high water.

  1. Strand as a noun:

    The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.

    Examples:

    "Grand Strand"

  2. Strand as a noun (poetic, archaic, _, or, _, regional):

    The shore or beach of a lake or river.

  3. Strand as a noun:

    A small brook or rivulet.

  4. Strand as a noun (UK, _, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland):

    A passage for water; gutter.

  5. Strand as a noun:

    A street (perhaps from similarity of shape)

  1. Strand as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To run aground; to beach.

  2. Strand as a verb (transitive, figuratively):

    To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

  3. 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."

  1. Strand as a noun:

    Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.

  2. Strand as a noun:

    A string.

  3. Strand as a noun:

    An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

    Examples:

    "strand of spaghetti"

    "strand of hair''."

  4. Strand as a noun (electronics):

    A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

  5. Strand as a noun (broadcasting):

    A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

  6. Strand as a noun (figurative):

    A sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

    Examples:

    "strand of truth"

  7. Strand as a noun (genetics):

    A nucleotide chain.

  1. Strand as a verb (transitive):

    To break a strand of (a rope).

  2. Strand as a verb (transitive):

    To form by uniting strands.