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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.  Synonym: yarn.
2.
Any long object resembling a thin line.  Synonym: ribbon.  "The lighted ribbon of traffic" , "From the air the road was a grey thread" , "A thread of smoke climbed upward"
3.
The connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together.  Synonym: train of thought.  "He lost the thread of his argument"
4.
The raised helical rib going around a screw.  Synonym: screw thread.
verb
(past & past part. threaded; pres. part. threading)
1.
To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.  Synonyms: meander, wander, weave, wind.  "The path meanders through the vineyards" , "Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
2.
Pass a thread through.
3.
Remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string.
4.
Pass through or into.  "Thread film"
5.
Thread on or as if on a string.  Synonyms: draw, string.  "The child drew glass beads on a string" , "Thread dried cranberries"



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"Thread" Quotes from Famous Books



... was not any more splendid or delicious indeed than one may see in a summer sunset sky many a day; but somehow the effect on the feelings was different. And when Matilda looked up again at the minister and tried to get at the thread of what he was saying, she found she had lost the connection; and began instead to marvel how he would look, if the streak of blue which bathed his forehead were to fall a little lower and lie across his mouth and chin. Altogether, ...
— The House in Town • Susan Warner
... end. Direct a small flame against the spot on the thick tube where the proposed joint is to be. When the glass becomes almost incandescent at this spot, put the end of the rod against it and draw out a thread of glass till sufficient "metal" has been removed. Then fuse off the thread close to ...
— On Laboratory Arts • Richard Threlfall
... mistake. I was quite unsuited to my wife.... But I made a bigger mistake when I thought to cut loose from the life I'd woven for myself. One thread pulled me back inexorably. I had half committed myself to a deal involving five millions of the public's money with ...
— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg
... up the seals, I tried to get a sounding, but the thirty fathoms of Alpine rope I had were not enough; no bottom was reached. After having something to eat we went down again, in order if possible to find out the depth. This time we were better supplied with sounding tackle two reels of thread, a marlinspike, ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen
... remarkable book and the later ones of the same lustrum, we may conveniently take up the thread of biography proper where we last dropped it. The letters are fuller for this period than perhaps for any other; but this very fulness makes it all the more difficult to select incidents, never, perhaps, of the very first importance, but vying with each other in ...
— Matthew Arnold • George Saintsbury


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