thread
verb
- to pass thread through
- move or cause to move in a non-linear fashion
noun
- a long string of fibre, typically used for sewing
- messages visually grouped with their replies
- the smallest sequence of program instructions that can be managed by a scheduler
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /θɹɛd/ / [θɾ̪̊ɛd]
noun
Etymology: 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.
- A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
“Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.”
- A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
- Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
“the threads of a spiderweb”
“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.”
- A slender stream of water.
“a thread of water”
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- A screw thread.
- The continuing course of life; the thread of life.
- An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse.
“I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.”
“I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.”
- An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse.
“All of these essays have a common thread.”
- A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform.
- A sequence of connections.
- A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.
“a life hanging by a thread”
- The degree of fineness; quality; nature.
“A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread.”
verb
Etymology: 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.
- To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
- To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
- To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
“to thread through narrow passages”
“I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.”
- To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
“He threaded his way through legal entanglements.”
- To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
“And when the Miners by theſe Shafts or Adits do ſtrike or threed a Vein of any Metal […] then the Metal which is digged […] is called Oar […]”
“Tom out here will have leave to thrid you with bullets.”
- To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
“[...] the urban landscape threaded with parks and trees to the horizon. The enormous sky over that flat line dazzled clear blue or filled with towers of cumulus clouds.”
“[...] dark hair threaded with gray pulled back from a face still beautiful in spite of clear evidence of the passage of time.”
- To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
“Coordinate term: tap”
“to thread a bolt”
- To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle.
“to thread your eyebrows and trim them”
- To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film.
- To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path.
- Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon.