Thread
[θred] or [θrɛd]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Filament, fibre, staple, pile, small string.[2]. Course, tenor.
v. a. Thrid, go through, pass through.
Editor: Terence
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Line, course, tenor, continuity
ANT:Deviation, divergence, aberration, solution, intermission, interruption
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Definition
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.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
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.
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Examples
- Louisa, holding her hand, could feel no pulse; but kissing it, could see a slight thin thread of life in fluttering motion. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Mr. Franklin took up the lost thread, and went on. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- An ordinary optic nerve is about the thickness of a thread, but his is like a cord. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And she lost her thread. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Besides that the thread became so brittle that the slightest shock to the lamp broke it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A needle and thread we don't know how to use. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I can't get the end of it into my hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- 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. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- These threads are proposed as prizes for those persons whom the emperor has a mind to distinguish by a peculiar mark of his favour. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Weave the threads of golden hair, Golden future also weaving. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Through this shed the shuttle which carries the woof or filling thread is sent crosswise the warp threads. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is the murder that we are really investigating, and I tell you that I am gathering all the threads into my hands. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The pressure is so great that every opening between the fibers of cotton, every space between threads is forced full of rubber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Her thimble is scarcely fitted on, her needle scarce threaded, when a sudden thought calls her upstairs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Little Dorrit gladly put it by her side, took out her little pocket-housewife, threaded the needle, and began to hem. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The ball of cord carried on the machine has one end threaded through the needle and fastened in a holder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They walked on towards the town, towards where the lamps threaded singly, at long intervals down the dark high-road of the valley. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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