stranding
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]stranding
- present participle and gerund of strand
Noun
[edit]stranding (plural strandings)
- The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded.
- 2023 May 3, David Bradley, “Driver Only Operation should depend on passenger density”, in RAIL, number 982, page 62:
- All of these factors increase the probability of stranding and the severity of the consequences. Since 2011, there have been several strandings that resulted in unplanned evacuations, because the passengers became desperate from personal discomfort or lack of confidence of being rescued.
- (grammar, of a word or phrase that can take a complement) Leaving (a word or phrase) without any expressed complement, or allowing (it) to go without one.
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]stranding c (singular definite strandingen, plural indefinite strandinger)
Declension
[edit]| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | stranding | strandingen | strandinger | strandingerne |
| genitive | strandings | strandingens | strandingers | strandingernes |