Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A strip of cloth or leather used to support the shoe at the heel.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A margin, border, or edge, as the bank of a stream.
  • noun A strip or slice of flesh cut from the margin of a part or from between two parts.
  • noun A hank of line or twine; a strip of leather.
  • noun Rushes on the borders and edges of land near a river.
  • noun In shoemaking:
  • noun The edge of the upper-leather; a seam of a shoe.
  • noun A thin inner shoe-sole, as of cork.
  • noun One of the slips beneath the heel of a sole to bring the rounding surface to a level ready to receive the lifts of the heel: distinctively called heel-rand. See cut under boot.
  • To storm; rant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To rant; to storm.
  • noun South Africa Rim; edge; border.
  • noun The monetary unit of the Union of South Africa.
  • noun a rocky gold-bearing ridge in South Africa, about thirty miles long, on which Johannesburg is situated; also, the gold-mining district including this ridge.
  • noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A border; edge; margin.
  • noun A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
  • noun A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To rant; to storm.
  • noun a rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
  • noun The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.
  • noun obsolete except in dialects the border of an area of land, especially marsh-land
  • noun obsolete except in dialects a strip of meat
  • noun a strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe
  • noun a single rod woven in and out of the stakes

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese
  • noun the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents
  • noun United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, a strip, from Old English, border, margin.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Afrikaans, after (Witwaters)rand.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

See rant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Afrikaans, from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English, from Old English rand ("edge, border, margin, rim, shore"), from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rent- (“to cut, square”). Cognate with Dutch rand ("edge, border, outskirts, rim"), German Rand ("edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts"), Swedish rand ("rand, stripe, edge, verge"). More at rind.

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Examples

  • "Random. rand = function () {return _rand ();} \n"

    博客园-首页原创精华区 2010

  • $rand. = $c [rand () % strlen ($c)]; return $rand;

    Netvouz - new bookmarks 2009

  • The National Treasury raised its economic growth forecasts and cut its estimate for the budget deficit, but stopped short of tightening exchange controls as demanded by labor unions, who are concerned a strong rand is costing jobs.

    South Africa to Loosen Exchange Controls Robb M. Stewart 2010

  • Its currency, the rand, is up 8% against the dollar this year, even as its central bank has intervened, buying dollars to keep the rand cheaper.

    Easy Money Churns Emerging Markets Alex Frangos 2010

  • Central bank Governor Gill Marcus separately said that while the rand is undoubtedly overvalued, in part due to attractive interest rates in South Africa, there is no clear-cut answer to what can be done.

    South Africa Warns on Joining 'Currency War' Robb M. Stewart 2010

  • PESCA: Two hundred rand translates to less than $30, so it was no wonder why Carr's single ticket with a face value of $100 wouldn't sell.

    Scalping World Cup Tickets, Not An Easy Task 2010

  • This would allow domestic long-term rand-denominated debt to be reduced by about R7,4-billion.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • In addition to the Republic's foreign currency denominated debt ratings, South Africa has now also been awarded long-term rand denominated debt ratings from both Moody's Investors Service and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Moody's Investor Service and S&P awarded South Africa long-term rand denominated debt ratings.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Since you require the text to be handled it needs to be submitted along with the form, otherwise it will be unretrievable since you call rand again to overwrite.

    CodingForums.com 2009

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