strand
noun
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a necklace made by a stringing objects togetherstring
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line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
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a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole“We tried to pick up the strands of our former life.”
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a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
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a very slender natural or synthetic fiberfilamentfibril
verb
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bring to the groundgroundrun aground
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drive (a vessel) ashore
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leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescuemaroon