Synonyms: chain, strand, string
Definition: a necklace made by a stringing objects together
Usage: a string of beads; a strand of pearls;
Similar words: necklace
Definition: jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women)
Synonyms: strand
Definition: line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
Similar words: line
Definition: something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
Usage: a washing line
Synonyms: strand
Definition: a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
Usage: he tried to pick up the strands of his former life; I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously
Similar words: form, pattern, shape
Definition: a perceptual structure
Usage: the composition presents problems for students of musical form; a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them
Synonyms: Strand
Definition: a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
Similar words: street
Definition: a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
Usage: they walked the streets of the small town; he lives on Nassau Street
Synonyms: strand
Definition: a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
Similar words: shore
Definition: the land along the edge of a body of water
Synonyms: fibril, filament, strand
Definition: a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
Definition: a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
Synonyms: ground, run aground, strand
Definition: bring to the ground
Usage: the storm grounded the ship
Similar words: land
Definition: bring ashore
Usage: The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island
Synonyms: strand
Definition: drive (a vessel) ashore
Similar words: land
Definition: bring ashore
Usage: The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island
Definition: leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
Usage: the travellers were marooned
Similar words: abandon, forsake, desert, desolate
Definition: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
Usage: The mother deserted her children