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noun (n)
a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole (noun.cognition)
Example: He tried to pick up the strands of his former life.
I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously.
source: wordnet30
line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable (noun.artifact)
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a necklace made by a stringing objects together (noun.artifact)
Example: A strand of pearls.
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a very slender natural or synthetic fiber (noun.substance)
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a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) (noun.object)
source: wordnet30
a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels (noun.location)
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One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed. (noun)
source: webster1913
The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. (noun)
source: webster1913
verb (v)
leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue (verb.possession)
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drive (a vessel) ashore (verb.motion)
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bring to the ground (verb.motion)
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To break a strand of (a rope). (verb)
source: webster1913
To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship. (verb)
source: webster1913
To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water. (verb)
source: webster1913
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