Noun
1. 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"2. line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
3. a necklace made by a stringing objects together;
"a string of beads""a strand of pearls";4. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
5. a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)