threads

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.

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[Middle English, from Old English thrd; see ter-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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threader n.

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threads [θrɛdz]

pl n

(Clothing & Fashion) a slang word for clothes

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

threads - 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