thread 
thread (t̸hred)
noun
- a light, fine, stringlike length of material made up of two or more fibers or strands of spun cotton, flax, silk, etc. twisted together and used in sewing
- a similar fine length of synthetic material, as nylon or plastic, or of glass or metal
- the fine, stringy filament extruded by a spider, silkworm, etc.
- any of the yarns of which a fabric is woven
- a fine, stringy length of syrup or other viscous material
- any thin line, stratum, vein, stream, ray, etc.
- an element suggestive of a thread in being continuous or sequential the thread of a story
- the helical ridge of a screw, bolt, nut, etc.
- ☆ Slang a suit, or clothes generally
Etymology: ME threde < OE thræd (akin to Ger draht) < base of thrawan, to twist: see throw
transitive verb
- to put a thread through the eye of (a needle, etc.)
- to arrange thread for use on (a sewing machine)
- to string (beads, etc.) on or as if on a thread
- to fashion a thread (sense ) on or in (a screw, pipe, etc.)
- to interweave with or as if with threads a red tapestry threaded with gold
- to pass through by twisting, turning, or weaving in and out to thread the streets
- to make (one's way) in this fashion
- to pass or feed (tape, film, etc.) into or through (a recorder, projector, etc.)
intransitive verb
- to go along or proceed in a winding way
- ☆ to form a thread when dropped from a spoon: said of boiling syrup that has reached a certain consistency
thread
n.
thread
v.
To pass thread through a needle
wire, string, run through, wind through, slip through. Antonyms
undo*, unthread, change the thread. To connect
attach, weave together, string together; see join 1.
Object
- fastener: The J Nut is a threaded fastener with a side profile generally in the shape of a 'J ' .
- bead: The apparition threaded the beads of the rosary through her fingers without moving her lips.
Converse of object
- entitle: Please see the reply that I have given TODAY to KAVITHA in the thread entitled " GARMENT IMPORT TO THE US " .
- start: Why would you want to start a thread about worst Britons?
Preposition: through
- casing: Twisted string is threaded through casing emerging through two holes on one side.
Adjective modifier
- common: Do these two stories have a common thread on purpose?
- golden: Paintings linked by a circular dance, golden thread, rush of wind.
- silken: The instrument consists of a bell glass, from the inside of which is suspended a copper needle by a fine silken thread.
- sticky: Perhaps turn this into it's own sticky thread?
- multiple: By default, multiple threads may execute inside the servlet at the same time.
- loose: Perhaps I will return to some of the loose threads in the above arguments sometime in the future.
Modifies a noun
- belay: A thread belay beneath the north-eastern side of the obelisk enables an abseil rope to be led through the saddle to seaward.
- embroidery: She undertook ecclesiastical commissions, and researched metal thread embroidery.
Noun used with modifier
- screw: The deep spiral groove means that waste is removed quickly and the center screw thread helps the drill to pull itself into the material.
- sewing: It proved highly successful and was also taken up by local housewives as a sewing thread superior to the older linen thread.
- warp: This was partly because devising a power-driven loom to handle dozens of warp threads without breakage proved difficult.
- silk: I work on the frame machines now, that twist the silk thread around to make the net.
- cotton: Structural sewing is by hand and machine using cream and white cotton thread.
- embroidery: Why not try using some of our multi-coloured Natesh embroidery threads to create a natural bark or leaf effect without having to change threads!
Preposition: of
- execution: Programs should only be terminated from their main thread of execution to allow the DPMI host to clean up properly.
A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we do when we speak or write, is somehow to capture it, thus making it one's own. But with this appropriation comes the realization that we have denied the immediacy of reality and that in creating a substitute we have but spun another thread in the web of our grand illusion.
Behold, whenwe come intotheland, thoushalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarilyöperhaps not possiblyöchronological It isthe continuousthread of revelation.
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass.
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
Our style should be as a skein of silk, to be carried and found by the right thread, not ravelled and perplexed; then all is a knot, a heap.
Consider every moment past A thread from life's frayed mantle cast.
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky:ö So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.
I span and Eve span A thread to bind the heart of man!
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.
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