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
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Seashore as a noun:
The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean.
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Seashore as a noun:
The foreshore, the strip of land between low water and high water.
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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.