STRAND

Definition of STRAND

  1. (verb)leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
  2. (verb)drive (a vessel) ashore
  3. (verb)bring to the ground
  4. (noun)a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
  5. (noun)line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
  6. (noun)a necklace made by stringing objects together
  7. (noun)a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
  8. (noun)a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)