Definition of strand

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)

  source: wordnet30
• a necklace made by a stringing objects together (noun.artifact)

  Synonym: chain, string
  

  Example:
  A strand of pearls.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a very slender natural or synthetic fiber (noun.substance)

  Synonym: fibril, filament
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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)

  source: wordnet30
• 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)

  Synonym: maroon
  

  source: wordnet30
• drive (a vessel) ashore (verb.motion)

  source: wordnet30
• bring to the ground (verb.motion)

  Synonym: ground, run aground
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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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