Meaning

noun a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole

noun line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

noun a necklace made by a stringing objects together

originOrigin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from…

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