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thread
[ thred ]
noun
- a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, especially when composed of two or more filaments twisted together.
- twisted filaments or fibers of any kind used for sewing.
- one of the lengths of yarn forming the warp or weft of a woven fabric.
- a filament or fiber of glass or other ductile substance.
- Ropemaking.
- any of a number of fibers twisted into a yarn.
- a yarn, especially as enumerated in describing small stuff.
- something having the fineness or slenderness of a filament, as a thin continuous stream of liquid, a fine line of color, or a thin seam of ore:
a thread of smoke.
- the helical ridge of a screw.
- that which runs through the whole course of something, connecting successive parts:
I lost the thread of the story.
- something conceived as being spun or continuously drawn out, as the course of life fabled to be spun, measured, and cut by the Fates.
- Digital Technology. a series of posts and responses on a message board or electronic mailing list that deal with the same subject and are grouped together.
- threads, Slang. clothes none.
verb (used with object)
- to pass the end of a thread through the eye of (a needle).
- to fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; string.
- to pass continuously through the whole course of (something); pervade:
A joyous quality threaded the whole symphony.
- to make one's way through (a narrow passage, forest, crowd, etc.).
- to make (one's way) thus:
He threaded his way through the crowd.
- to form a thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
- to place and arrange thread, yarn, etc., in position on (a sewing machine, loom, textile machine, etc.).
- to remove (facial hair, especially eyebrow hair) by using a looped and twisted thread to roll over the hair and lift it from the follicles.
verb (used without object)
- to thread one's way, as through a passage or between obstacles:
They threaded carefully along the narrow pass.
- to move in a threadlike course; wind or twine.
- Cooking. (of boiling syrup) to form a fine thread when poured from a spoon.
- to remove facial hair, especially from the eyebrows, by using a looped and twisted thread.
thread
/ θɛ /
noun
- a fine strand, filament or fibre of some material
- a fine cord of twisted filaments, esp of cotton, used in sewing, weaving, etc
- any of the filaments of which a spider's web is made
- any fine line, stream, mark, or piece
from the air, the path was a thread of white
- a helical groove in a cylindrical hole ( female thread ), formed by a tap or lathe tool, or a helical ridge on a cylindrical bar, rod, shank, etc ( male thread ), formed by a die or lathe tool
- a very thin seam of coal or vein of ore
- something acting as the continuous link or theme of a whole
the thread of the story
- the course of an individual's life believed in Greek mythology to be spun, measured, and cut by the Fates
verb
- tr to pass (thread, film, magnetic tape, etc) through (something)
to thread a needle
to thread cotton through a needle
- tr to string on a thread
she threaded the beads
- to make (one's way) through or over (something)
- tr to produce a screw thread by cutting, rolling, tapping, or grinding
- tr to pervade
hysteria threaded his account
- intr (of boiling syrup) to form a fine thread when poured from a spoon
Derived Forms
- ˈٳ, noun
- ˈٳˌ, adjective
- ˈٳ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ٳİ noun
- ٳl adjective
- ٳl adjective
- ·ٳ verb
- ·ٳ verb
- -ٳiԲ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of thread1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of thread1
Idioms and Phrases
see hang by a thread ; lose the thread .Example Sentences
"I've got threads and threads of nobody wanting to communicate with me, and I was asking for so much help to try and sort this out."
The firings follow a major controversy involving the NSC last month when senior officials inadvertently added a journalist to a Signal messaging thread about military strikes in Yemen.
Collet-Serra knots that thread with a third-act scene of unexpected tenderness, where Ramona and the woman do what people and monsters so rarely do: talk.
"One is obviously: How did a reporter get into this thread in the conversation?"
"He's used them all at different times - there's not a single thread here that you can rely on."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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