strand

1 :  to run, drive, or cause to drift onto a strand :  run aground

2 :  to leave in a strange or an unfavorable place especially without funds or means to depart

3 :  to leave (a base runner) on base at the end of an inning in baseball

:  to become stranded

1 Scotland and dialects of England :  stream

2 Scotland and dialects of England :  sea

1a :  fibers or filaments twisted, plaited, or laid parallel to form a unit for further twisting or plaiting into yarn, thread, rope, or cordageb :  one of the wires twisted together or laid parallel to form a wire rope or cablec :  something (such as a molecular chain) resembling a strand a strand of DNA

2a :  an element (such as a yarn or thread) of a woven or plaited materialb :  a threadlike piece of natural or synthetic material a strand of hair

3 :  an elongated or twisted and plaited body resembling a rope a strand of pearls

4 :  one of the elements interwoven in a complex whole one strand of the novel's plot

1 :  to break a strand of (a rope) accidentally

2a :  to form (something, such as a rope) from strandsb :  to play out, twist, or arrange in a strand

:  the land bordering a body of water :  shore, beach

1 :  to run, drive, or cause to drift from the water onto land The storm stranded boats.

2 :  to leave in a strange or unfavorable place especially without any way of leaving He's stranded in a strange city.

1 :  one of the fibers, threads, strings, or wires twisted or braided to make a cord, rope, or cable

2 :  something long or twisted like a rope a strand of pearls

:  something (as a molecular chain) resembling a thread a strand of DNA