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Definition of 'thread'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) thread
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.  thread
twisted filaments or fibers of any kind used for sewing.

3.  thread
(loosely) yarn or a piece of yarn used in weaving or knitting.

4.  thread
a filament or fiber of glass or other ductile substance.

5.  thread
something having the fineness of a filament, as a thin continuous stream of liquid, a thin line of color, or a thin seam of ore.

6.  thread
the helical ridge of a screw.

7.  thread
something that runs through the whole course of a thing, connecting successive parts:
I lost the thread of the story.

8.  thread
the course of life, as fabled to be spun, measured, and cut by the Fates.

9.  thread
Slang. clothes.

10. (v.t.) thread
to pass the end of a thread through the eye of (a needle).

11.  thread
to fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; string.

12.  thread
to pass (tape, film, etc.) through or into a narrow opening.

13.  thread
to interweave or ornament with threads:
silk threaded with gold.

14.  thread
to pass continuously through the whole course of; pervade.

15.  thread
to make (one's way), as past or around obstacles or through a passage:
He threaded his way through the crowd.

16.  thread
to form a thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).

17.  thread
to place and arrange thread, yarn, etc., in position on (a sewing machine, loom, textile machine, etc.).

18. (v.i.) thread
to thread one's way.

19.  thread
to move in a threadlike course; wind or twine.

20.  thread
(of boiling syrup) to form a fine thread when poured from a spoon.

Etymology: (bef. 900; (n.) ME threed, OE thræmacr;d, c. OS thrād, OHG drāt, ON thrathr; akin to throw)

Definition of 'thread'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) thread, yarn
a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving

2. (noun) ribbon, thread
any long object resembling a thin line
"a mere ribbon of land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the road was a grey thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward"

3. (noun) train of thought, thread
the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together
"I couldn't follow his train of thought"; "he lost the thread of his argument"

4. (verb) screw thread, thread
the raised helical rib going around a screw

5. (verb) weave, wind, thread, meander, wander
to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
"the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"

6. (verb) thread
pass a thread through
"thread a needle"

7. (verb) thread
remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string
"She had her eyebrows threaded"

8. (verb) thread
pass through or into
"thread tape"; "thread film"

9. (verb) string, thread, draw
thread on or as if on a string
"string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"

Definition of 'thread'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) thread
a long, very thin piece of cotton, nylon, etc. used for sewing
a needle and thread; a piece of black thread

2. thread
an idea or quality that connects things
the thread of the conversation during the evening; Self-confidence is a common thread among entrepreneurs.

3. (verb) thread
to put a piece of thread through the hole in a needle
I couldn't thread the needle.

4. thread
to move carefully between and around things
as they threaded their way through the crowd

Definition of 'thread'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) thread
a very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted

2. (noun) thread
a filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver

3. (noun) thread
the prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1

4. (noun) thread
fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse

5. (noun) thread
fig.: Composition; quality; fineness

6. (verb) thread
to pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle

7. (verb) thread
to pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid

8. (verb) thread
to form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut

Definitions of 'thread'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. thread
[Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of topic thread, a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic. To follow a thread is to read a series of Usenet postings sharing a common subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers. The better newsreaders can present news in thread order automatically. Not to be confused with the techspeak sense of ‘thread’, e.g. a lightweight process.

Interestingly, this is far from a neologism. The OED says: “That which connects the successive points in anything, esp. a narrative, train of thought, or the like; the sequence of events or ideas continuing throughout the whole course of anything;” Citations are given going back to 1642!

Translation of 'thread'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a thin strand of cotton, wool, silk etc, especially when used for sewing a needle and some thread.
Afrikaans: garing	Arabic: خَيْط	Bulgarian: конец
Brazilian: linha	Czech: nit	German: der Faden
Danish: tråd	Greek: κλωστή, νήμα	Spanish: hilo, hebra
Estonian: niit, lõng	Farsi: نخ	Finnish: säie
French: fil	Hebrew: חוּט	Hindi: डोरा
Croatian: konac	Hungarian: fonal	Indonesian: benang
Icelandic: þráður, tvinni	Italian: filo	Japanese: 糸
Korean: 실	Lithuanian: siūlas	Latvian: diegs; pavediens
Malay: benang	Dutch: draad	Norwegian: tråd
Polish: nić	Persian: نخ	Pashto: تار، سپڼسى، ريښه، لړۍ ( د
Portuguese: linha	Romanian: fir	Russian: нитка
Slovak: niť	Slovenian: nit	Serbian: pletivo
Swedish: tråd	Thai: ด้าย	Turkish: iplik
Taiwanese: 線	Ukrainian: нитка	Urdu: دھاگا
Vietnamese: sợi chỉ	Chinese: 线
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