1.a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole;
he tried to pick up the strands of his former life
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 necklace made by a stringing objects together;
a string of beads
4.a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
5.a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
1.leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue;
the travellers were marooned