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strand

(str/&/nd )

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)

Example:
A strand of pearls.

Synonym:
chain, string

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

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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