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Straits
- noun - a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"
- a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
Strakes
- noun - thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
Strands
- noun -
- a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
- 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"
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship"
- drive (a vessel) ashore
- leaves without transport.
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
Strange
- adjective - being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has"
- Chief Superintendent Strange, fictional detective from Colin Dexter's novels, Chief Inspector Morse's boss.
- not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house"
- Peculiar
- relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city"
- Unfamiliar
- Unusual
Strappy
- unknown - To do with straps on shoes and sandals..in fashion.
Stratum
- noun - an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously"
- one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
- people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
Stratus
- noun - a large dark low cloud
Strauss
- noun - Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899)
- Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849)
- German composer of many operas; collaborated with librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to produce several operas (1864-1949)
Straves
- noun - an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane; "the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields"
Strawed
- verb - cover or provide with or as if with straw; "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"
- spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet"