SkyfireDict

strand   (TTS Sound)

The noun strand has 6 senses

• strand -- (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")


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


• chain, string, strand -- (a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";)


• fibril, filament, strand -- (a very slender natural or synthetic fiber)


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


• Strand -- (a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels)

The verb strand has 3 senses

• maroon, strand -- (leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the travellers were marooned")


• strand -- (drive (a vessel) ashore)


• ground, strand, run aground -- (bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship")