An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.
A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
A small brook or rivulet.
A passage for water; gutter.
A nucleotide chain.
A string.
A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
A street.
An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
To form by uniting strands.
To break a strand of (a rope).
To run aground; to beach.
To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.