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English to English noun
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a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole |  | Example: he tried to pick up the strands of his former life
I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously
source: wordnet30
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line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable | | source: wordnet30
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a necklace made by a stringing objects together | | Example: a string of beads
a strand of pearls
source: wordnet30
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a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | | source: wordnet30
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a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) | | source: wordnet30
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a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels | | source: wordnet30
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One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed. | | source: webster1913
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The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. | | source: webster1913 verb
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leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | | Example: the travellers were marooned
source: wordnet30
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drive (a vessel) ashore | | source: wordnet30
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bring to the ground | | Example: the storm grounded the ship
source: wordnet30
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To break a strand of (a rope). | | source: webster1913
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To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship. | | source: webster1913
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To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water. | | source: webster1913
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