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thread

  [thred]
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–noun
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.
a. any of a number of fibers twisted into a yarn.
b. a yarn, esp. as enumerated in describing small stuff.
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.
–verb (used with object)
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.).
–verb (used without object)
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.
Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME threed, OE thrǣd; c. D draad, G Draht, ON thrathr wire; (v.) ME threeden, deriv. of the n. See throw

Related forms:
threader, noun
threadless, adjective
threadlike, adjective
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thread   (thrěd)   
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.
  3. A helical or spiral ridge on a screw, nut, or bolt.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  2. 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.
  4. To occur here and there throughout; pervade: "More than 90 geologic faults thread the Los Angeles area" (Science News).
  5. To machine a thread on (a screw, nut, or bolt).
v.   intr.
  1. To make one's way cautiously: threaded through the shoals and sandbars.
  2. To proceed by a winding course.
  3. To form a thread when dropped from a spoon, as boiling sugar syrup.

[Middle English, from Old English thrǣd; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots.]
thread'er n.
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