Filament vs. Strand — What's the Difference?

A fine or very thin thread or fiber

Land, typically a beach, bordering a body of water.

A fine wire that is heated electrically to produce light in an incandescent lamp.

A complex of fibers or filaments that have been twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread, or yarn.

The stalk that bears the anther in the stamen of a flower.

A single filament, such as a fiber or thread, of a woven or braided material.

A chainlike series of cells, as in many algae.

A ropelike length of something

A long thin cellular structure characteristic of many fungi, usually having multiple nuclei and often divided by septa.

A wisp or lock of hair.

Any of various long thin celestial objects or phenomena, such as a solar filament.

One of the elements woven together to make an intricate whole, such as the plot of a novel.

A fine thread or wire.

To drive or run (a boat, for example) ashore or aground.

Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.

To cause (a whale or other sea animal) to be unable to swim free from a beach or from shallow water.

A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.

To bring into or leave in a difficult or helpless position

(botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.

(Baseball) To leave (a base runner) on base at the end of an inning.

(textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.

(Linguistics) To separate (a grammatical element) from other elements in a construction, either by moving it out of the construction or moving the rest of the construction. In the sentence What are you aiming at, the preposition at has been stranded.

A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber;

To be driven or run ashore or aground

A very slender natural or synthetic fiber

To be stranded, as on a beach. Used of sea animals.

The stalk of a stamen

To make or form (a rope, for example) by twisting strands together.

A threadlike anatomical structure or chainlike series of cells

To break a strand of (a rope, for example).

A thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current

The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.

The shore or beach of a lake or river.

A small brook or rivulet.

A passage for water; gutter.

A street.

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.

(figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

(genetics) A nucleotide chain.

To run aground; to beach.

To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

(transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).

(transitive) To form by uniting strands.

One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.

To break a strand of (a rope).

To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.

To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.

A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole;

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

A necklace made by a stringing objects together;

A very slender natural or synthetic fiber

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

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

Leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue;