Thread
[θred] or [θrɛd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving.
(verb.) pass through or into; 'thread tape'; 'thread film'.
(verb.) remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string; 'She had her eyebrows threaded'.
(verb.) pass a thread through; 'thread a needle'.
布鲁克整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) 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.
(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
校對:贾斯廷
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Filament, fibre, staple, pile, small string.[2]. Course, tenor.
v. a. Thrid, go through, pass through.
手打:特伦斯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Line, course, tenor, continuity
ANT:Deviation, divergence, aberration, solution, intermission, interruption
杰西卡校對
解釋/意思:
n. a very thin line of any substance twisted and drawn out: a filament of any fibrous substance: a fine line of yarn: anything resembling a thread: the prominent spiral part of a screw: something continued in long course: the uniform tenor of a discourse.—v.t. to pass a thread through the eye of (as a needle): to pass or pierce through as a narrow way: to furnish with a thread.—adj. Thread′bare worn to the bare thread: having the nap worn off: hackneyed: used till its novelty or interest is gone.—n. Thread′bareness.—adj. Thread′en (Shak.) made of thread.—ns. Thread′er; Thread′iness the state of being thread-like or slender: the quality of containing threads; Thread′-lace lace made of linen thread; Thread′-pā′per a piece of thin soft paper for wrapping up a skein of thread.—n.pl. Thread′-worms a popular name for Nematoda a class of more or less thread-like worms many parasitic others free-living.—adj. Thread′y like thread: slender: containing or consisting of thread.—Thread and thrum all the good and bad together; Thread of life the thread imagined to be spun and cut by the Fates.—Lisle thread a fine hard-twisted linen thread originally made at Lille in France.
德洛丽丝校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of thread, denotes that your fortune lies beyond intricate paths. To see broken threads, you will suffer loss through the faithlessness of friends. See Spools.
杰夫編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Louisa, holding her hand, could feel no pulse; but kissing it, could see a slight thin thread of life in fluttering motion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Mr. Franklin took up the lost thread, and went on. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- An ordinary optic nerve is about the thickness of a thread, but his is like a cord. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- And she lost her thread. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Besides that the thread became so brittle that the slightest shock to the lamp broke it. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- A needle and thread we don't know how to use. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I can't get the end of it into my hand. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I enjoy the art of all sorts here immensely; but I suppose if I could pick my enjoyment to pieces I should find it made up of many different threads. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- These threads are proposed as prizes for those persons whom the emperor has a mind to distinguish by a peculiar mark of his favour. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Weave the threads of golden hair, Golden future also weaving. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The intervening loops and threads are attached to another frame or heddle, and the two heddles by being worked, one up and the other down, separate the warp threads to form the shed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Through this shed the shuttle which carries the woof or filling thread is sent crosswise the warp threads. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is the murder that we are really investigating, and I tell you that I am gathering all the threads into my hands. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The pressure is so great that every opening between the fibers of cotton, every space between threads is forced full of rubber. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Her lodgings were hard by; and they threaded through the crowd without, where everything seemed to be more astir than even in the ball-room within. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The devil's dance of the Indian Diamond has threaded its way to London; and to London you must go after it, leaving me at the country-house. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Her thimble is scarcely fitted on, her needle scarce threaded, when a sudden thought calls her upstairs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Little Dorrit gladly put it by her side, took out her little pocket-housewife, threaded the needle, and began to hem. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The ball of cord carried on the machine has one end threaded through the needle and fastened in a holder. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- They walked on towards the town, towards where the lamps threaded singly, at long intervals down the dark high-road of the valley. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- On the base of the upper half a hard wood screw is inserted and at the top of the butt a threaded hole is bored. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Tiber, the road which is spread by nature's own hand, threading her continent, was at my feet, and many a boat was tethered to the banks. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
鲍里斯校對