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stroud

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stroud.

Editorial note

Polar explorers Fienes and Stroud were eating locks of butter and still losing weight on their sled pulling expedition.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A kind of coarse wool used in blankets or for garment by Native Americans.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of stroud gathered in one view.

noun

A kind of coarse wool used in blankets or for garment by Native Americans.

noun

A town and civil parish with a town council in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8505).

noun

A local government district of Gloucestershire, formed in 1974, with its headquarters near the town.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stroud.

noun

A kind of coarse wool used in blankets or for garment by Native Americans.

noun

A town and civil parish with a town council in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8505).

noun

A local government district of Gloucestershire, formed in 1974, with its headquarters near the town.

noun

A town in MidCoast council area, New South Wales, Australia.

Example sentences

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Polar explorers Fienes and Stroud were eating locks of butter and still losing weight on their sled pulling expedition.

2

From the Stroud et al 2023 paper reviewed in the article: Species’ phenotypic characteristics often remain unchanged over long stretches of geological time.

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Boundary Representation Modelling Techniques by Stroud is probably the most popular one.

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The presenter Kevin Stroud has a deep passion for the subject matter.

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The variability that Stroud was surprised to see might not have occurred.

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But, say Stroud et al: However, even with an explosion of microevolutionary field studies over the past four decades, evidence for persistent stabilizing selection driving long-term stasis is lacking.

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> Don Stroud got his scar by jumping into a crowd of men with knives to stop a woman from being raped, according to former story editor Larry DiTillio.

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This one time on an episode of Survivorman, Kalahari iirc, I watched Les Stroud use a hole in the dirt and a clear plastic tarp covering it to act as a solar still.

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So, there's the Bear Grylls and Wim Hof and Les Stroud (etc.) survival methods -- do everything you can to survive -- but now there's also apparently the Charles Joughin survival method -- just get completely sh-tfaced drunk!

Quote examples

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Of course, if you are into podcasts, there is the fantastic “The History of English” podcast by Kevin Stroud.

2

Or even better, try "Minus Two, Woodend Lane, Cam, Stroud" No two geocoding services agree on the correct answer.

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Before you get to proofs and logic in maths, all you really need for “plug and chug” maths is KA Stroud’s Engineering Mathematics textbook.

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I must have gotten the two characters mixed up at some point because of their scars (and having found the entry again, I have no clue where I got "Vietnam" from): Boggs from Ceremonies of Light and Dark, played by Don Stroud.

Proper noun examples

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Ben Stroud, you live in London, why are you writing about San Francisco anyway?

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The article returns many times to the value of Stroud's long-term, high-quality data collection.

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Besides, I don't think Les Stroud's background and past accomplishments can even compare to that of Bear Grylls.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use stroud in a sentence?

Polar explorers Fienes and Stroud were eating locks of butter and still losing weight on their sled pulling expedition.

What does stroud mean?

A kind of coarse wool used in blankets or for garment by Native Americans.

What part of speech is stroud?

stroud is commonly used as noun.