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.
Definitions
- noun. One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
- transitive verb. To break a strand of (a rope).
- noun. The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
- transitive verb. To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
- intransitive verb. To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
- noun. a necklace made by a stringing objects together
"a string of beads"
"a strand of pearls"
- noun. line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- noun. 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"
- noun. a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
- noun. a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- noun. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- verb. bring to the ground
"the storm grounded the ship"
- verb. drive (a vessel) ashore
- verb. leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
"the travellers were marooned"
Synonyms
chain, string, fibril, filament, ground, maroon
Common word forms
strands, stranded, strander, stranding, strandless
Words from these letters
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