A Strand

The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
(poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
A small brook or rivulet.
(Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
A street (perhaps from the similarity of shape).
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.
(figuratively) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
(genetics) A nucleotide chain.