| stranded | | |
| adj. | 1. isolated, marooned, stranded | cut off or left behind.; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" |
| ~ unaccompanied | being without an escort. |
| trapped | | |
| adj. | 1. at bay, cornered, trapped, treed | forced to turn and face attackers.; "a stag at bay"; "she had me cornered between the porch and her car"; "like a trapped animal" |
| ~ unfree | hampered and not free; not able to act at will. |
| incarcerate | | |
| v. (social) | 1. gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand | lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ detain, confine | deprive of freedom; take into confinement. |
| strand | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. strand | 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" |
| ~ pattern, form, shape | a perceptual structure.; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. strand | line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable. |
| ~ line | something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible.; "a washing line" |
| ~ ply | one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination.; "three-ply cord"; "four-ply yarn" |
| ~ rope yarn | the strands out of which ropes are made. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. chain, strand, string | a necklace made by a stringing objects together.; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls" |
| ~ necklace | jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women). |
| n. (substance) | 4. fibril, filament, strand | a very slender natural or synthetic fiber. |
| ~ barb | one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather. |
| ~ cobweb, gossamer | filaments from a web that was spun by a spider. |
| ~ chromatid | one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis. |
| ~ myofibril, myofibrilla, sarcostyle | one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber. |
| ~ rhizoid | any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc. |
| ~ hypha | any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus. |
| ~ paraphysis | a sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed. |
| ~ fiber, fibre | a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn. |
| n. (object) | 5. strand | a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides). |
| ~ shore | the land along the edge of a body of water. |
| n. (location) | 6. strand | a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels. |
| ~ street | a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings.; "they walked the streets of the small town"; "he lives on Nassau Street" |
| ~ west end | the part of west central London containing the main entertainment and shopping areas. |
| v. (possession) | 7. maroon, strand | leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue.; "the travellers were marooned" |
| ~ desert, desolate, forsake, abandon | leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.; "The mother deserted her children" |
| v. (motion) | 8. strand | drive (a vessel) ashore. |
| ~ land | bring ashore.; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" |
| v. (motion) | 9. ground, run aground, strand | bring to the ground.; "the storm grounded the ship" |
| ~ run aground, ground | hit or reach the ground. |
| ~ land | bring ashore.; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" |
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