Strand (cigarette) definition

(1) A necklace made by a stringing objects together

"A string of beads"

"A strand of pearls";

(2) Line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

(3) 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"

(4) A street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels

(5) A poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)

(6) A very slender natural or synthetic fiber

(7) Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue

"The travellers were marooned"