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thread

UK/ˈθɹɛd/ US/ˈθɹʷɛd/ fairly common
verb (5) noun (4)

verb

1.

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”
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2.

pass a thread through

  • “thread a needle”
3.

remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string

  • “She had her eyebrows threaded”
4.

pass through or into

  • “thread tape”
  • “thread film”
5.

thread on or as if on a string

  • “string pearls on a string”
  • “the child drew glass beads on a string”
  • “thread dried cranberries”
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noun

1.

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

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2.

any long object resembling a thin line

  • “a mere ribbon of land”
  • “the lighted ribbon of traffic”
  • “from the air the road was a gray thread”
  • “a thread of smoke climbed upward”
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3.

the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together

  • “I couldn”
  • “;”
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4.

Origin

From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”). Cognates Cognate with Yola dreade (“thread”), Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), Cimbrian draat (“string, thread”), Dutch draad (“thread, wire”), German Draht (“thread, wire”), Luxembourgish Drot (“wire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish tråd (“thread, wire”), Faroese tráður (“thread”), Icelandic þráður (“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.

Phrases

  • Abalakov thread
  • bean thread
  • bean thread noodle
  • brahminical thread
  • gold thread
  • golden thread
  • green thread
  • hang by a thread
  • thread the needle

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