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Spelling: [tred]

IPA: /trɛd/

Tread is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in tread (adert).

Definitions for tread

noun

1. the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
2. the sound of footsteps.
3. manner of treading or walking.
4. a single step as in walking.
5. any of various things or parts on which a person or thing treads, stands, or moves.
6. the part of the under surface of the foot or of a shoe that touches the ground.
7. the horizontal upper surface of a step in a stair, on which the foot is placed.
8. the part of a wheel, tire, or runner that bears on the road, rail, etc.
9. the pattern raised on or cut into the face of a rubber tire.
10. Also, caterpillar tread. a metal tread on which a Caterpillar-style vehicle moves.
11. Railroads. that part of a rail in contact with the treads of wheels.

Idioms

1. tread on someone's toes / corns, to offend or irritate someone.
2. tread the boards, to act on the stage, especially professionally:
3. tread water, Swimming. to maintain the body erect in the water with the head above the surface usually by a pumping up-and-down movement of the legs and sometimes the arms. Slang. to make efforts that maintain but do not further one's status, progress, or performance:

verb (used with object)

1. to step or walk on, about, in, or along.
2. to trample or crush underfoot.
3. to form by the action of walking or trampling:
4. to treat with disdainful harshness or cruelty; crush; oppress.
5. to perform by walking or dancing:
6. (of a male bird) to copulate with (a female bird).

verb (used without object)

1. to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk.
2. to step, walk, or trample so as to press, crush, or injure something (usually followed by on or upon):
3. (of a male bird) to copulate.

Origin of tread

before 900; (v.) Middle English treden, Old English tredan; cognate with Old Frisian treda, Old Saxon tredan, Dutch treden, German treten; akin to Old Norse trotha, Gothic trudan; (noun) Midd

Examples for tread

The interim, however, is ours, and here we must tread carefully.

He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,— "Now tread we a measure!"

It really set the tone for the second half of Season 5, ending with that great “tread lightly” encounter between Hank and Walt.

We feel their strangeness when we read their words—they lived on a plane where few dare to tread.

After carrying a heavy pack so long, I seemed to tread on air.

She could hear his tread marching into her life, and could see his face.

It was fair, and so long that when standing up she could tread on it and bend her head forward.

No, I will tear his image from my bosom, tread on him, spurn him.

The moral philosopher Michael Sandel observed, “Fundamentalists rush in where liberals fear to tread.”

She says that Italy must tread carefully not to allow this to happen.