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The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.

(poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.

A small brook or rivulet.

(British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.

A street.

(nautical) To run aground; to beach.

(figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

(baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

(grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.

Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.

A string.

An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

(electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

(broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

(figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

(genetics) A nucleotide chain.

(Philippines, education, formal) A specialization of a senior high school track.

(Philippines, education, informal) Track.

To break a strand of (a rope).

To form by uniting strands.