Synonyms of the word

strand

• n. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
• n. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
• n. A small brook or rivulet.
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
• n. A street (perhaps from similarity of shape).
• v. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
• n. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
• n. A string.
• n. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
• n. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
• n. (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
• n. (figuratively) A sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
• n. (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
• v. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).

abandon

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of.
• v. (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
• v. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to…
• v. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
• v. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming…
• v. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
• n. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation…
• n. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
• adv. (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.

chain

• n. A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
• n. A series of interconnected things.
• n. A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
• n. (chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
• n. (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
• n. (surveying) A long measuring tape.
• n. A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket…
• n. (mathematics, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
• n. (Britain) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding…
• n. That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with…
• n. (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
• v. (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
• v. (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
• v. (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
• v. (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
• v. (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
• v. (computing) To be chained to another data item.
• v. (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
• v. (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).

desert

• n. (usually in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward.
• n. A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.
• n. (figuratively) Any barren place or situation.
• adj. Abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited; usually of a place.
• v. To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary…
• v. To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.

desolate

• adj. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
• adj. Barren and lifeless.
• adj. Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
• adj. Dismal or dreary.
• adj. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
• v. To deprive of inhabitants.
• v. To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
• v. To abandon or forsake something. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English…}
• v. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

fiber

• n. (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted…
• n. (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
• n. (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
• n. Dietary fiber.
• n. (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
• n. (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
• n. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along…
• n. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

fibre

• n. (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted…
• n. (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
• n. Dietary fibre.
• n. Moral strength and resolve.
• n. (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
• n. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along…
• n. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
• n. A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte.

fibril

• n. A fine fibre or filament.
• n. (biology) Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants.

filament

• n. A fine thread or wire.
• n. Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
• n. (physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward…
• n. (botany) The stalk of a stamen in a flower, supporting the anther.
• n. (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

forsake

• v. To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

maroon

• n. An escaped negro slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of escaped slaves.
• n. A castaway; a person who has been marooned.
• adj. Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.
• v. To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a deserted island.
• n. A dark red, somewhat brownish, color.
• adj. Of a maroon color.
• n. (nautical) A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (e.g. to summon the crew…
• n. (slang, derogatory) An idiot; a fool.

necklace

• n. An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls,…
• n. (figuratively) Anything resembling a necklace in shape.
• n. (South Africa) A method of informal execution in which a rubber tyre is filled with petrol, placed around…
• v. (South Africa) To informally execute by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put…

pattern

• n. Model, example.
• n. A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
• n. A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative…
• n. The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
• n. A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen…
• n. (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
• v. To apply a pattern.
• v. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model;…
• v. To follow an example.
• v. To fit into a pattern.
• v. (transitive) To serve as an example for.

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

shore

• n. Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
• n. (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.
• v. (obsolete) To set on shore.
• n. A prop or strut supporting the weight or flooring above it.
• v. (transitive, without up) To provide with support.
• v. (usually with up) To reinforce (something at risk of failure).
• v. simple past tense of shear.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A sewer.

street

• n. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
• n. A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
• n. The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
• n. The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor,…
• n. (slang) Street talk or slang.
• n. (figuratively) A great distance.
• n. (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
• n. Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug.
• n. (attributive) Living in the streets.
• adj. (slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
• v. To build or equip with streets.
• v. To eject; to throw onto the streets.
• v. (sports, by extension) To heavily defeat.
• v. To go on sale.
• v. (Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.

string

• n. (countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
• n. (uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
• n. (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
• n. A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession;…
• n. (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
• n. (countable) A series of items or events.
• n. (countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
• n. (countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable…
• n. (music, countable) A stringed instrument.
• n. (music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those…
• n. (in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively.
• n. (countable, physics) The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
• n. (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
• n. Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball…
• n. The points made in a game of billiards.
• n. (billiards, pool) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play,…
• n. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
• n. (archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
• n. (archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
• n. (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and…
• n. (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
• n. (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
• n. (architecture) A stringcourse.
• n. (dated, slang) A hoax; a fake story.
• v. (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
• v. (transitive) To put strings on (something).
• v. (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are…