Strand vs Tuft - What's the difference?
strand | tuft |
The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
The shore or beach of a lake or river.
A small brook or rivulet.
A passage for water; gutter.
(nautical) To run aground; to beach.
(figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
(baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
A string.
An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
(electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
(broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
( genetics) A nucleotide chain.
A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
A small clump of trees or bushes.
(historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
(historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
* T. Hughes
To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
To form into tufts.
To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts.
To be formed into tufts.
As nouns the difference between strand and tuft
is that strand is while tuft is a bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc, held together at the base.As a verb tuft is
to provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.strand
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) strand, strond, from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian straun, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand.Noun
(en noun)- Grand Strand
Verb
(en verb)- Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.
Synonyms
* (run aground) beach * (leave someone in a difficult situation) abandon, desertEtymology 2
Origin uncertain. Cognate with (etyl) stran, strawn, .Noun
(en noun)- strand of spaghetti
- strand of hair .
- strand of truth
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* do the strandtuft
English
Noun
(en noun)- Several young tufts , and others of the faster men.
Derived terms
*tufthunting *tufthunterVerb
(en verb)- (Thomson)