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Strand vs. Tendon — What's the Difference?

Strand vs. Tendon — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Strand and Tendon

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Strand

A complex of fibers or filaments that have been twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread, or yarn.

Tendon

A tendon or sinew is a tough high-tensile-strength band of dense fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone and is capable of withstanding tension and transmit the mechanical forces of muscle contraction to the skeletal system. Tendons are similar to ligaments; both are made of collagen.

Strand

Land, typically a beach, bordering a body of water.

Tendon

A band of tough, inelastic fibrous tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment.

Strand

A single filament, such as a fiber or thread, of a woven or braided material.
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Tendon

(anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.

Strand

A ropelike length of something
A strand of pearls.
A strand of DNA.

Tendon

(biology) The hamstring of a quadruped.

Strand

A wisp or lock of hair.

Tendon

(construction) A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.

Strand

One of the elements woven together to make an intricate whole, such as the plot of a novel.

Tendon

A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.

Strand

To drive or run (a boat, for example) ashore or aground.

Tendon

A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment

Strand

To cause (a whale or other sea animal) to be unable to swim free from a beach or from shallow water.

Strand

To bring into or leave in a difficult or helpless position
The convoy was stranded in the desert.

Strand

(Baseball) To leave (a base runner) on base at the end of an inning.

Strand

(Linguistics) To separate (a grammatical element) from other elements in a construction, either by moving it out of the construction or moving the rest of the construction. In the sentence What are you aiming at, the preposition at has been stranded.

Strand

To be driven or run ashore or aground
The boat stranded on the rocks.

Strand

To be stranded, as on a beach. Used of sea animals.

Strand

To make or form (a rope, for example) by twisting strands together.

Strand

To break a strand of (a rope, for example).

Strand

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

Strand

The shore or beach of a lake or river.

Strand

A small brook or rivulet.

Strand

A passage for water; gutter.

Strand

A street.

Strand

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

Strand

A string.

Strand

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

Strand

(electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

Strand

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

Strand

(figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
Strand of truth

Strand

(genetics) A nucleotide chain.

Strand

To run aground; to beach.

Strand

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

Strand

To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.

Strand

(transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).

Strand

(transitive) To form by uniting strands.

Strand

One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

Strand

The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.

Strand

To break a strand of (a rope).

Strand

To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.

Strand

To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.

Strand

A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole;
He tried to pick up the strands of his former life
I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously

Strand

Line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

Strand

A necklace made by a stringing objects together;
A string of beads
A strand of pearls

Strand

A very slender natural or synthetic fiber

Strand

A poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)

Strand

A street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels

Strand

Leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue;
The travellers were marooned

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