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(noun) a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable |
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Related Words: line, ply, rope yarn |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: form, pattern, shape |
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(noun) a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels |
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Related Words: street |
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(noun) a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) |
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Related Words: shore |
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(verb) leave stranded; put ashore on a desolate island and abandon |
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Synonyms: maroon |
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Related Words: abandon, desert, desolate, forsake, lurch |
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(noun) a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads" or "a strand of pearls" |
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Synonyms: chain, string |
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Related Words: necklace |
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(noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber |
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Synonyms: fibril, filament |
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Related Words: barb, chromatid, cobweb, fiber, fibre, gossamer, hypha, myofibril, myofibrilla, paraphysis, rhizoid, sarcostyle |
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