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See also:Threadand/thread

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishthred,þred,threed, fromOld Englishþrǣd, fromProto-Germanic*þrēduz, fromProto-Indo-European*treh₁-tu-s, from*terh₁-(“rub, twist”).

Cognates

Cognate withYoladreade(“thread”),Saterland FrisianTräid(“thread, wire”),Cimbriandraat(“string, thread”),Dutchdraad(“thread, wire”),GermanDraht(“thread, wire”),LuxembourgishDrot(“wire”),Danish,Norwegian Bokmål,Norwegian Nynorsk andSwedishtråd(“thread, wire”),Faroesetráður(“thread”),Icelandicþráður(“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates includeAlbaniandredh(“twist, turn”). More atthrow.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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knottedthread

thread (pluralthreads)

  1. Acord formed by spinning or twisting together textilefibers orfilaments into one or more continuousstrands, typically used inneedlework.
    Synonym:string
    • 1961,Harry E. Wedeck,Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page234:
      Woolenthreads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.
  2. (weaving) Apiece ofyarn, especially said ofwarps andwefts in a wovenfabric.
  3. Any of variousnatural (asspiderweb, etc.) ormanufactured filaments (asglass,plastic,metal, etc.).
    thethreads of a spiderweb
    • 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 likethreads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.
  4. Aslenderstream of water.
    athread of water
  5. The linemidway between thebanks of astream.
  6. (engineering) Ascrew thread.
  7. The continuingcourse oflife;thread of life.
  8. An orderedcourse, that which connects the successive points in adiscourse.
    1. A line ofreasoning, sequence ofideas, ortrain of thought.
      I’ve lost thethread of what you’re saying.
      • 1847,Charlotte Brontë,Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII:
        I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke thethread 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 thethread of his thought.’
    2. A continuingtheme that modifies the whole discourse.
      Synonym:topic
      All of these essays have a commonthread.
  9. (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than aprocess, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
  11. (Internet) A series ofposts ormessages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the samesubject, on anewsgroup, Internetforum, orsocial mediaplatform.
  12. Asequence ofconnections.
  13. Aprecariouscondition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceivedsecurity.
    a life hanging by athread
  14. (figurative, obsolete) The degree offineness;quality;nature.

Hyponyms

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Translations

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long, thin and flexible form of material
a theme or idea—see alsocommon thread
a screw thread—seescrew thread
a sequence of connection
the line midway between the banks of a stream
(computing) a unit of execution
(Internet) a series of messages

Verb

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tothread a needle (sense 1)
A man having his eyebrowsthreaded (sense 7)

thread (third-person singular simple presentthreads,present participlethreading,simple pastthreadedor(archaic)thrid,past participlethreadedor(archaic)thridor(archaic)thridden)

  2. (transitive) Topass a thread through theeye of aneedle.
  3. (transitive) To fix (beads,pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; tostring.
  4. (transitive, figurative) To make one's way through or between (aconstriction orobstacles).
    tothread through narrow passages
    I think I canthread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.
    • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page266:
      The line to Uganda goes up the side of a slope in a series of S-bends, and as the telegraph wires follow the line, from below they look like a forest as theythread backwards and forwards about six times.
    • 2013 October 19, Ben Smith, “Manchester United 1-1 Southampton”, inBBC Sport‎[1]:
      Picking the ball up in his own half, Januzajthreaded a 40-yard pass into the path of Rooney to slice Southampton open in the blink of an eye.
    1. To cautiouslymake (one's way) through a precarious place or situation.
      Hethreaded his way through legal entanglements.
  5. (transitive, figurative) Topass through; topierce through; topenetrate.
    • 1670, John Pettus,Fodinæ Regales […], London: Printed by H. L. and R. B. […],page 2:
      And when the Miners by theſe Shafts or Adits do ſtrike orthreed aVein of anyMetal[…] then theMetal which is digged[…] is calledOar[…]
    • 1896 May 12,The Pall Mall Magazine, page12:
      Tom out here will have leave tothrid you with bullets.
    • 1899, Bernard Capes, chapter 16, inLady of Darkness,New York: Dodd, Mead & Company,page122:
      Only the swifts were alert and busy, flashing, poising, diving under the eaves;thridding Ned's brain as they passed with a receding sound like that made by pebbles hopping over ice.
    • 1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, inTrains Illustrated, page101:
      On the descent the line is often in cuttings; some are high, such as at Scarcroft, where a cut through firestone and fireclay was necessary, and near Bardsey, where the linethreads a deep tree-lined gorge.
  6. (transitive) Tointerweave as if with thread; tointersperse.
    • 2010 April 1, Gayla Marty,Memory of Trees: A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press,→ISBN, page177:
      [...] the urban landscapethreaded with parks and trees to the horizon. The enormous sky over that flat line dazzled clear blue or filled with towers of cumulus clouds.
    • 2014 June 30, G.B. Lindsey, Diana Copland, Libby Drew,Secrets of Neverwood: An Anthology, Carina Press,→ISBN:
      [...] dark hairthreaded with gray pulled back from a face still beautiful in spite of clear evidence of the passage of time.
    • 2021 November 4, Steven Mithen,Land of the Ilich: Journey's into Islay's Past, Birlinn Ltd,→ISBN:
      [...] landscapethreaded with rivers, roads, tracks, pathways and an airport runway; one peppered with villages, farms, crofts and distilleries. Visitors to Islay, especially those coming from densely populated urban areas, often mistakenly […]
    • 2023 May 2, Lucy Clarke,One of the Girls, Penguin,→ISBN, page 6:
      [...] dark hairthreaded with early silver.
  7. (transitive) To form ascrew thread on or in (abolt,hole, etc.).
    Coordinate term:tap
    tothread a bolt
  9. (ambitransitive) Toremove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle.
    tothread your eyebrows and trim them
  10. (ambitransitive) Tofeed (asewing machine or otherwise aprojecting orexposing mechanism, such as aprojector, acamera, etc.) withfilm. [(usually)withup]
  11. (transitive) Topass (afilm ortape) through aprojector,recorder, etc. so as to correct itspath.
  12. (intransitive) Of boilingsyrup: Toform a threadlike stream when poured from aspoon.

Derived terms

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Translations

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pass a thread through the eye of a needle
make one's way through or between
screw on
remove hair using a thread

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Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishthread.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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thread m (pluralthreads)

  1. (anglicism, computing)thread
  2. (anglicism, Internet)thread

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishthread.

Noun

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thread m (invariable)

  1. (Internet)thread(series of messages)

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishthread.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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thread f (pluralthreads)

  1. (computing)thread(one of several units of execution running concurrently)
  2. (Internet)thread(series of grouped messages)
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