"stranding" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: strandings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} stranding (plural strandings)
  1. The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded.
    Sense id: en-stranding-en-noun-juXcjDli
  2. The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded.
    (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.
    Sense id: en-stranding-en-noun-en:grammar Categories (other): Grammar, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 86 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 12 83 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 90 3 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: strandability, strandable, unstrandable

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} stranding
  1. present participle and gerund of strand Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: strand
    Sense id: en-stranding-en-verb-v7Z0oO6j

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1989, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, pages 594-595:",
          "text": "The day of our arrival two belugas had accidentally become grounded in the shallows of a river delta near the station, and now that the tide had gone out, they seemed helplessly stuck. Such strandings are uncommon, and they offer scientists the opportunity to tag, measure, and determine the sex of the animals.",
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          "ref": "2023 May 3, David Bradley, “Driver Only Operation should depend on passenger density”, in RAIL, number 982, page 62:",
          "text": "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.",
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