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say it: strand
strand is a noun and verb meaning "a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole". It carries 9 recorded senses.
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 necklace made by stringing objects together
“a string of beads”
“a strand of pearls”
a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
drive (a vessel) ashore
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for strand come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.