[thred] 
| 1. | a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, esp. when composed of two or more filaments twisted together. |
| 2. | twisted filaments or fibers of any kind used for sewing. |
| 3. | one of the lengths of yarn forming the warp or weft of a woven fabric. |
| 4. | a filament or fiber of glass or other ductile substance. |
| 5. | Ropemaking.
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| 6. | 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. |
| 7. | the helical ridge of a screw. |
| 8. | that which runs through the whole course of something, connecting successive parts: I lost the thread of the story. |
| 9. | something conceived as being spun or continuously drawn out, as the course of life fabled to be spun, measured, and cut by the Fates. |
| 10. | Computers. a series of newsgroup messages dealing with the same subject. |
| 11. | threads, Slang. clothes. |
| 12. | to pass the end of a thread through the eye of (a needle). |
| 13. | to fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; string. |
| 14. | to pass continuously through the whole course of (something); pervade: A joyous quality threaded the whole symphony. |
| 15. | to make one's way through (a narrow passage, forest, crowd, etc.). |
| 16. | to make (one's way) thus: He threaded his way through the crowd. |
| 17. | to form a thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.). |
| 18. | to place and arrange thread, yarn, etc., in position on (a sewing machine, loom, textile machine, etc.). |
| 19. | to thread one's way, as through a passage or between obstacles: They threaded carefully along the narrow pass. |
| 20. | to move in a threadlike course; wind or twine. |
| 21. | Cookery. (of boiling syrup) to form a fine thread when poured from a spoon. |
