ˈt͡ʃeɪn faɪbɹ(ə)l ˈfɪləmənt stɹɪŋ bring to the ground the storm grounded the ship drive (a vessel) ashore leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue the travellers were marooned a necklace made by stringing objects together a string of beads a strand of pearls line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable 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 a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber