Dictionary Entry
strand
strand is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
- 2transitive verb
To break a strand of (a rope).
- 3noun
The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
- 4transitive verb
To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
- 5intransitive verb
To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
- 6noun
a necklace made by a stringing objects together
"a string of beads"
"a strand of pearls"
- 7noun
line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- 8noun
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"
- 9noun
a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
- 10noun
a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- 11noun
a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- 12verb
bring to the ground
"the storm grounded the ship"
Synonyms
- 13verb
drive (a vessel) ashore
- 14verb
leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
"the travellers were marooned"
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