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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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... beyond the sun, We'll beat on the substantial doors, nor tread Those dusty high-roads of the aimless dead Plaintive for Earth; but rather turn and run Down some close-covered by-way of the air, Some low sweet alley between wind and wind, Stoop under faint gleams, thread the shadows, find Some whispering ...

— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)

... wrote: "I stand on a river's bank. I know not whence the waters come or whither they go. So deep and silent is its current that I know not whether it flows north or south; all is mystery to me; but when I climb yon summit the river becomes a silver thread weaving its length in and out among the hills and over the plains. I see it all from its source in yonder mountain to its outlet in yonder sea. There is no more mystery." So these university professors buried in school books, these ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various

... now urged and animated the contest. When nearly half an hour had passed, Kathleen came behind her, and stooping down, whispered, "Dora, don't turn your wheel so quickly: you move the, foot-board too fast—don't twist the thread too much, and ...

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