Synonyms for strand

noun

• a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
• a necklace made by stringing objects together
• a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
• a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
• a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
• line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

verb

• bring to the ground
• leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
• drive (a vessel) ashore