noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beached/stranded whale (= one that is stuck on land )
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The beached whales are quite obviously very distressed.
a piece/length/strand of wire
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The pieces of wire he’d cut were too short.
a strand/wisp of hair (= a thin piece of hair )
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She brushed away a strand of hair from her eyes.
passengers are stranded (= are unable to continue their journey )
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At least 1,000 passengers were stranded at the airport because of the storm.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complementary
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Non-radioactive oligonucleotide duplexes were prepared the same way by mixing 2 pmol each of the complementary strands .
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The labelled Watson and unlabelled complementary strand were mixed in a concentration ratio of 1:2, respectively.
different
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But if the different strands can be gradually disentangled, the situation becomes easier.
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The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life.
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It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition.
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It will be instructive therefore to examine some of these different strands within Marxism.
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He introduced a quite different strand: I was a slow learner.
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When considering the notion of choice in relation to institutional care there are a number of different strands which require separate examination.
important
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For the next twelve years, its reports were to form an important strand in the formulation of policy.
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As mentioned above, there were three important strands: the Salafiyyists, the Djazara'a group and the Afghanistes.
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An important strand in the association's work had always been the development of contacts with writers.
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How can the account of authority here offered be thought to represent important strands in Western thought?
long
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Twined about the fingers of his free hand were long strands of a woman's hair.
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If the long strands are lifted, this forms a diamond design, which is shown in Fig. 3.
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He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed.
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He was a mousy man: long thin strands of hair protruded erratically from under his steel helmet.
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A neurone is a cell with a small centre from which stem long strands called axons and dendrites.
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And there are long strands of fixed points, a bit like beads on long strings.
main
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Here two main theoretical strands can be isolated.
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The other main strand in nineteenth-century feminism accepted the idea of women as the natural guardians of the moral order.
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I intend therefore to pursue three main strands .
other
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There are other strands which have rejected this account of self and autonomy.
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The other strand concerns the local geological history.
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After all there were other strands to the case, loose ends which needed to be tied up.
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In various other places and strands of the New Testament we find similar unselfconscious allusions to the three persons in the deity.
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The other main strand in nineteenth-century feminism accepted the idea of women as the natural guardians of the moral order.
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Two other significant strands of Russia' s colonial expansion into Siberia deserve mention.
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The other strand of the community's policy, a carbon tax, now looks unlikely to be approved by ministers.
separate
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Each separate strand is simple, whether it is of cotton, cane or clay.
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There were in fact two separate but overlapping strands in the social-purity alliance.
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The computer, to cite another example, required no fewer than six separate strands of knowledge: binary arithmetic.
single
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T m measurements were made using total single strand concentrations of 18 and 8µM for duplexes 1 and 4 respectively.
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A fiber or strand mile is a mile-long, single strand of fiber optic wire.
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A single strand of technological evolution connects electronic sewing machines, electronic typewriters, and flexible electronic workstations.
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A persistent, recurrent theme; a single strand of ancient lore in the weave.
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Only one strand of the linkers ligated to the cDNA and the single strand gap was repaired with Taq polymerase prior to amplification.
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The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance.
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If a really soft fabric is required, the backing yarn can be as fine as a single strand of 2/30.
thin
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Carefully snip into the paper along its length, to form a row of thin strands joined at one end.
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A thin strand of smoke swept back over Ezra and vanished in the wind.
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He was a mousy man: long thin strands of hair protruded erratically from under his steel helmet.
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A few thin strands of black to grey hair and a nose that looked like badly applied putty.
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It rolled towards High Brook in thin , vaporous strands , giving the house a spectral aspect.
upper
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As shown in Fig. 2A, two footprints were observed either with the lower or the upper strand labelled.
various
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They locate the various strands in feminist thinking, and show the conceptual problems involved in combining them.
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But it was not as straight forward as that, and we need to unravel the various strands of influence and persuasion.
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The winners encompassed all the various strands of business.
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These various strands of information work with the computer are combined in some of the newest developments in user education in schools.
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The various strands of his life were beginning to come together.
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To prevent opposition forces coalescing, the authorities went to great length to separate the various strands of artistic and intellectual thought.
■ NOUN
dna
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The two DNA strands in the sample would, of course, usually relocate their partners and reform the paired double helix.
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The other way is that it can be duplicated into a new DNA strand .
template
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For both complexes the additional blockages all occur at, or one nucleotide prior to isolated G residues on the template strand .
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This phenomena is consistent with the formation of intrastrand crosslinks between adjacent guanine residues on the template strand .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a strand of silk
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Plato draws all the strands of the argument together at the end.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But if they are looking for strands of hope, they should look to Hostetler.
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Claude has suggested that there is an exponential relationship between the number of tight junctional strands and transepithelial resistance.
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For both complexes the additional blockages all occur at, or one nucleotide prior to isolated G residues on the template strand .
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I stared for a long time, without touching anything, wondering why any of it warranted a protective strand of hair.
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It is the holder of prepared fleece or flax from which the spinner draws out strands.
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We examined the broken ends of the rattan stay and found black spots of mould growing inside the strands.