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Thread

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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— South America • W. H. Koebel

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— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball

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— The Mermaid - A Love Tale • Lily Dougall

... only, and those two so indistinguishably blended, as it were, that they would appear as one to the casual observer. So I practised repression, though the wall of my reserve is worn to the thinness of thread-paper, and I tried to keep my mind on the droning minor canon, and not to look at her, 'for that ...

— A Cathedral Courtship • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... indeed should I be, if I adventured to bore the poor, much-abused, uncomplaining public with hundreds of lines out of a dormant epic; the very phrase is a lullaby; it's as catching as a yawn; well will it be for me if my thread-bare domino conceals me, for whose better fame could brook the scandal of having fathered or fostered so slumbering an embryo?—Let then a few shreds and patches suffice—a brick or two for the house: and verily I know they will, be they never so scanty; for what man of education does not now ...

— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

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