Thesaurus: strand

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1. n. One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
2. v. t. To break a strand of (a rope).
3. n. The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
4. v. t. To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
5. v. i. To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
6. n. a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
7. n. line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
8. n. a necklace made by stringing objects together
9. n. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
10. n. a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
11. v. leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
12. v. drive (a vessel) ashore