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–adjective

interwoven or ornamented with threads: silk threaded with gold.

[Origin: 1535–45; thread + -ed³

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n.

1. Fine cord of a fibrous material, such as cotton or flax, made of two or more filaments twisted together and used in needlework and the weaving of cloth.
2. A piece of such cord.
3. A thin strand, cord, or filament of natural or manufactured material.
4. Something that suggests the fineness or thinness of such a strand, cord, or filament: a thread of smoke.
5. Something that suggests the continuousness of such a strand, cord, or filament: lost the thread of his argument.
6. A portion of a program that can run independently of and concurrently with other portions of the program.
7. A set of posts on a newsgroup, composed of an initial post about a topic and all responses to it.
1. A thin strand, cord, or filament of natural or manufactured material.
2. Something that suggests the fineness or thinness of such a strand, cord, or filament: a thread of smoke.
3. Something that suggests the continuousness of such a strand, cord, or filament: lost the thread of his argument.
4. A portion of a program that can run independently of and concurrently with other portions of the program.
5. A set of posts on a newsgroup, composed of an initial post about a topic and all responses to it.
A helical or spiral ridge on a screw, nut, or bolt.
Computer Science
1. A portion of a program that can run independently of and concurrently with other portions of the program.
2. A set of posts on a newsgroup, composed of an initial post about a topic and all responses to it.
threads Slang Clothes.

v. thread·ed, thread·ing, threads

v. tr.

1. To pass one end of a thread through the eye of (a needle, for example).
2. To pass (something) through in the manner of a thread: thread the wire through the opening.
3. To pass a tape or film into or through (a device): thread a film projector.
4. To pass (a tape or film) into or through a device.
5. To make one's way cautiously through: threading dark alleys.
6. To make (one's way) cautiously through something.
To connect by running a thread through; string: thread beads.
1. To make one's way cautiously through: threading dark alleys.
2. To make (one's way) cautiously through something.
To occur here and there throughout; pervade: "More than 90 geologic faults thread the Los Angeles area" (Science News).
To machine a thread on (a screw, nut, or bolt).