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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



... hear the tread of many feet, the lowing of many herds, and know they are the re-echoing sounds of the sturdy pioneer home-seekers. Travel-stained and weary, yet triumphant and happy, most of them reach their various destinations, and their trying experiences and valorous deeds are ...
— The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate • Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
... dropped into place, a heavy object fell upon it with a thud, and they were in inky darkness. There was no sound save the sobs of the two boys, and later the steady tread of a man who paced the floor overhead,—a man who carried ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... worthy even to kiss the ground on which you tread, that is my opinion, and if he does not spend his entire life in trying to be worthy of you, it ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... mind, and that, if they attended him it would be their duty to exhort him to the last. As he passed along the ranks of the guards he saluted them with a smile; and he mounted the scaffold with a firm tread. Tower Hill was covered up to the chimney tops with an innumerable multitude of gazers, who, in awful silence, broken only by sighs and the noise of weeping, listened for the last accents of the darling ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... not one of them stirred, while they listened for the tread of the sentry who might be stationed ...
— Army Boys in the French Trenches • Homer Randall


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