strand

Noun

• a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels

• a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)

• a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

• a necklace made by a stringing objects together;
  • a string of beads
    
  • a strand of pearls
    

• line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

• a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
  • he tried to pick up the strands of his former life
    
  • I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously
    

Verb

• bring to the ground
  • the storm grounded the ship
    

• drive (a vessel) ashore

• leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
  • the travellers were marooned
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Strand , fibril , filament , chain , string , ground , run aground , maroon