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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026thread /θrɛd/USA pronunciation
n.
- Textilesa thin, fine cord of fiber spun out to great length: [uncountable]I need some thread to sew a button back on.[countable]Some threads are coming off your sleeve.
- Building the raised line on the long part of a screw:[countable]The threads had been stripped and the screw was useless.
- something that runs through the whole course of a thing, as a narrative, connecting parts in sequence:[countable]I lost the thread of the story in all the confusion.
- Slang Terms threads, [plural] clothes:I love your threads!
v. - to pass the end of a thread through the eye of (a needle):[~ + object]to thread a needle.
- [~ + object] to fix or attach (beads, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through;
string.
- Textiles[~ + object] to place and arrange thread, etc., in position on (a sewing machine, loom, etc.).
- to pass (tape, etc.) through or into a narrow opening:[~ + object]He threaded the film into the projector and started the movie.
- to ornament with threads:[~ + object]silk threaded with gold.
- to make (one's way), as past or around things or people that block or get in the way: [~ + object]threaded his way through the crowd.[no object]He threaded through the crowd.
thread•er, n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026thread
(thred),USA pronunciation n.
- Textilesa fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, esp. when composed of two or more filaments twisted together.
- Textilestwisted filaments or fibers of any kind used for sewing.
- Textilesone of the lengths of yarn forming the warp or weft of a woven fabric.
- a filament or fiber of glass or other ductile substance.
- Textiles[Ropemaking.]
- any of a number of fibers twisted into a yarn.
- a yarn, esp. as enumerated in describing small stuff.
- something having the fineness or slenderness of a filament, as a thin continuous stream of liquid, a fine line of color, or a thin seam of ore:a thread of smoke.
- Buildingthe helical ridge of a screw.
- that which runs through the whole course of something, connecting successive parts:I lost the thread of the story.
- something conceived as being spun or continuously drawn out, as the course of life fabled to be spun, measured, and cut by the Fates.
- Computinga series of posts on a newsgroup dealing with the same subject.
- Slang Terms threads, clothes.
v.t. - to pass the end of a thread through the eye of (a needle).
- to fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through;
string.
- to pass continuously through the whole course of (something);
pervade:A joyous quality threaded the whole symphony.
- to make one's way through (a narrow passage, forest, crowd, etc.).
- to make (one's way) thus:He threaded his way through the crowd.
- to form a thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
- Textilesto place and arrange thread, yarn, etc., in position on (a sewing machine, loom, textile machine, etc.).
v.i. - to thread one's way, as through a passage or between obstacles:They threaded carefully along the narrow pass.
- to move in a threadlike course;
wind or twine.
- Food[Cookery.](of boiling syrup) to form a fine thread when poured from a spoon.
- bef. 900; (noun, nominal) Middle English threed, Old English thrǣd; cognate with Dutch draad, German Draht, Old Norse thrathr wire; (verb, verbal) Middle English threeden, derivative of the noun, nominal See throw
+ n.
- Computinga series of posts on a newsgroup dealing with the same subject.
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