thread
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
thread (plural threads)
- A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
- A continued theme or idea.
- Synonyms: topic
- All of these essays have a common thread.
- I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.
- (engineering) A screw thread.
- A sequence of connections.
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- (Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.
- A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
- (figurative) Composition; quality; fineness.
- 1632, Ben Jonson, The Magnetic Lady
- A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread.
- 1632, Ben Jonson, The Magnetic Lady
- French: fil
- German: Faden, Garn, Zwirn, Nähgarn, Strang
- Italian: filo, refe
- Portuguese: fio, linha, barbante
- Russian: нить
- Spanish: hilo, hebra
- French: fil
- German: Thema, roter Faden, Faden
- Italian: filo, filo conduttore
- Portuguese: fio da meada
- Russian: те́ма
- Spanish: tema, argumento
- French: fil
- German: Gedankenfluß, Gedankenstrom, Zusammenhang, Strom, Fluß
- Russian: нить
- French: processus léger, exétron
- German: Thread
- Portuguese: thread
- Russian: пото́к
- Spanish: subproceso, proceso ligero
- French: fil, fil de discussion
- German: Diskussionsfaden, Diskussionsstrang, Thread
- Italian: forum
- Portuguese: tópico
- Russian: ве́тка
- Spanish: hilo, tema, tópico
thread (threads, present participle threading; past threaded, past participle threaded)
- (transitive) To put thread through.
- thread a needle
- (transitive) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
- I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.
- 2013, Ben Smith, "", BBC Sport, 19 October 2013:
- Picking the ball up in his own half, Januzaj threaded a 40-yard pass into the path of Rooney to slice Southampton open in the blink of an eye.
- To screw on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt
- German: aufschrauben, gewindeschneiden
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