Definitions for thread

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Spelling: [thred]

IPA: /θrɛd/

Thread is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in thread (adehrt).

Definitions for thread

noun

1. a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, especially when composed of two or more filaments twisted together.
2. twisted filaments or fibers of any kind used for sewing.
3. one of the lengths of yarn forming the warp or weft of a woven fabric.
4. a filament or fiber of glass or other ductile substance.
5. Ropemaking. any of a number of fibers twisted into a yarn. a yarn, especially as enumerated in describing small stuff.
6. 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:
7. the helical ridge of a screw.
8. that which runs through the whole course of something, connecting successive parts:
9. something conceived as being spun or continuously drawn out, as the course of life fabled to be spun, measured, and cut by the Fates.
10. Digital Technology. a series of posts and responses on a message board or electronic mailing list that deal with the same subject and are grouped together.
11. threads, Slang. clothes.

verb (used with object)

1. to pass the end of a thread through the eye of (a needle).
2. to fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; string.
3. to pass continuously through the whole course of (something); pervade:
4. to make one's way through (a narrow passage, forest, crowd, etc.).
5. to make (one's way) thus:
6. to form a thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
7. to place and arrange thread, yarn, etc., in position on (a sewing machine, loom, textile machine, etc.).
8. to remove (facial hair, especially eyebrow hair) by using a looped and twisted thread to roll over the hair and lift it from the follicles.

verb (used without object)

1. to thread one's way, as through a passage or between obstacles:
2. to move in a threadlike course; wind or twine.
3. Cookery. (of boiling syrup) to form a fine thread when poured from a spoon.
4. to remove facial hair, especially from the eyebrows, by using a looped and twisted thread.

Origin of thread

before 900; (noun) Middle English threed, Old English thrǣd; cognate with Dutch draad, German Draht, Old Norse thrathr wire; (v.) Middle English threeden, derivative of the noun See Examples for thread

He's not the easiest actor to cast; the needle may be too difficult to thread.

We now resume the thread of our narrative where Ney's journal left off.

There will always be a thread between us, we have children together, that is very powerful.

She loved to spin, and no spider ever spun so fine a thread as she on her spinning wheel.

Isn't it annoying when one can't pick up the thread of a conversation?

Made from Japanese paper and thread, her rebozo is a critique of the condition of the planet and human behavior, the artist said.

Minnie shook her head mysteriously, and bit a thread with a vague frown.

There, he first picked up needle and thread to mend the shirt of an SS guard who had just beaten him.

She only holds him by a thread; and if you draw it too tight (I know his temper) it'll snap.

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