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Webster 1913 Edition
Thread
Thread
(thrĕd)
, Noun.
1.
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; also, one fiber of a cord composed of multiple fibers.
2.
A filament of any substance, as of glass, gold or silver; a filamentous part of an object, such as a flower; a component fiber of any or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
3.
The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See , 1.
Screw
, Noun.
4.
(Fig.)
Something continued in a long course or tenor; a recurrent theme or related sequence of events in a larger story;
as the
. thread
of a story, or of life, or of a discourseBp. Burnet.
5.
Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
[Obs.]
A neat courtier,
Of a most elegant
Of a most elegant
thread
. B. Jonson.
Air thread
, the fine white filaments which are seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders; gossamer.
– Thread and thrum
, the good and bad together.
[Obs.]
Shak.
– Thread cell
(Zool.)
, a lasso cell. See under
– Lasso
. Thread herring
(Zool.)
, the gizzard shad. See under
– Gizzard
. Thread lace
, lace made of linen thread.
– Thread needle
, a game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbor, runs between the others; – called also
thread the needle
.Thread
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Threaded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Threading
.] 1.
To pass a thread through the eye of;
as, to
. thread
a needle2.
To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one’s way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
Heavy trading ships . . .
threading
the Bosphorus. Mitford.
They would not
thread
the gates. Shakespeare
3.
To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in;
as, to
. thread
a screw or nutWebster 1828 Edition
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English
Noun
thread (plural threads)
- A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.
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- A theme or idea.
- All of these essays have a common thread.
- I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.
- (engineering) A **** thread.
- A sequence of connections.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII:
- I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 21:
- ‘Let him go on. Do not interrupt him. He cannot go back, and maybe could not proceed at all if once he lost the thread of his thought.’
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- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- (Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.
- A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
- (figuratively) Composition; quality; fineness.
- Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
- A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread.
- Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Synonyms
- (theme): topic
Translations
long, thin and flexible form of material
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a theme or idea
a **** thread — see **** thread
a sequence of connection
the line midway between the banks of a stream
(computing): a unit of execution
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(Internet): a series of messages
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Derived terms
Derived terms
Verb
thread (third-person singular simple present threads, present participle threading, simple past threaded or (archaic) thrid, past participle threaded or (archaic) thridden)
- (transitive) To put thread through.
- thread a needle
- (transitive) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
- I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.
- To **** on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt
Translations
put thread through
to pass
to **** on
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Italian
Etymology
Noun
thread m (invariable)