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thread  (thrd)
n.
1.
a. Fine cord of a fibrous material, such as cotton or flax, made of two or more filaments twisted together and used in needlework and the weaving of cloth.
b. A piece of such cord.
2.
a. A thin strand, cord, or filament of natural or manufactured material.
b. Something that suggests the fineness or thinness of such a strand, cord, or filament: a thread of smoke.
c. Something that suggests the continuousness of such a strand, cord, or filament: lost the thread of his argument.
3. A helical or spiral ridge on a screw, nut, or bolt.
4. Computer Science
a. A portion of a program that can run independently of and concurrently with other portions of the program.
b. A set of posts on a newsgroup, composed of an initial post about a topic and all responses to it.
5. threads Slang Clothes.
v. thread·ed, thread·ing, threads
v.tr.
1.
a. To pass one end of a thread through the eye of (a needle, for example).
b. To pass (something) through in the manner of a thread: thread the wire through the opening.
c. To pass a tape or film into or through (a device): thread a film projector.
d. To pass (a tape or film) into or through a device.
2. To connect by running a thread through; string: thread beads.
3.
a. To make one's way cautiously through: threading dark alleys.
b. To make (one's way) cautiously through something.
4. To occur here and there throughout; pervade: "More than 90 geologic faults thread the Los Angeles area" Science News.
5. To machine a thread on (a screw, nut, or bolt).
v.intr.
1. To make one's way cautiously: threaded through the shoals and sandbars.
2. To proceed by a winding course.
3. To form a thread when dropped from a spoon, as boiling sugar syrup.
[Middle English, from Old English thrd; see ter-1 in Indo-European roots.]
threader n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.threadsthreads - informal terms for clothing
duds, togs
article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wearable, vesture, wear - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one


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You must try and gather together the threads again.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of human life.
No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context
But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
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