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Tread   /trɛd/   Listen
Tread

verb
(past trod; past part. trodden; pres. part. treading)
1.
Put down or press the foot, place the foot.  Synonym: step.  "Step on the brake"
2.
Tread or stomp heavily or roughly.  Synonym: trample.
3.
Crush as if by treading on.
4.
Brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center.
5.
Apply (the tread) to a tire.
6.
Mate with.
noun
1.
A step in walking or running.  Synonyms: pace, stride.
2.
The grooved surface of a pneumatic tire.
3.
The part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground.
4.
Structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step.



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"Tread" Quotes from Famous Books



... so slim was her waist that you could have clipped her in your two hands; and so firm were her breasts that they rose against her bodice as if they were two apples. The daisies that bent above her instep, and broke beneath her light tread, looked black against her feet; so white ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various
... dark and, although they could hear the tread of the sentries in the courtyard, they could not make out their figures. They crossed the yard, keeping as far as possible from the sentries. They had no doubt that all would happen as arranged; but there was, of course, the possibility that at the last ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty
... their carriage. Chanticleer observing that they were but thin fellows, and not likely to take up much room, told them they might ride, but made them promise not to dirty the wheels of the carriage in getting in, nor to tread on Partlet's toes. ...
— Grimms' Fairy Tales • The Brothers Grimm
... At last the child, whose ears were even keener than Henderson's, caught her breath with a little indrawing gasp and looked up at her companion's face. Henderson understood; and every muscle stiffened. A moment later and he, too, heard the oncoming tread of hurried footsteps. Then Pichot went by at a swinging stride, with Mitchell skulking obediently at ...
— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts
... The sweat stood on his steep forehead and a hectic flush on either cheek, but there was a smile—what a smile!—on his lips. Motioning us to tread noiselessly (a vain ideal for me), he led the way to the sitting-room we knew, switched on ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers


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