rand

Meaning

1. The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
2. A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
3. A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
5. A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.
6. A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
7. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.
8. To rant; to storm.
9. A random number.
10. Alternative letter-case form of rand (the currency of south Africa)
11. The Witwatersrand, a gold-mining geographic area also known as the Reef in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, of which the principal city is Johannesburg.
12. A surname.
13. A diminutive of the male given names Randall or Randolph.
14. A number of places, other than in South Africa:
15. A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1078).
16. A small town in Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
17. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, United States.
18. An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.
19. A census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
20. Initialism of reasonable and nondiscriminatory: a standard used with respect to licensing.
21. Initialism of Research and Development: a nonprofit global policy think tank.

Etymology / origin

From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.

Related words

Descendant words

• arran(Catalan) (cog)
• rind(English) (cog)
• randa(Galician) (cog)
• randar(Galician) (cog)
• Rand(German) (cog)
• iranda(Southern Ndebele) (bor)

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