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thread English

Meaning thread meaning

What does thread mean?
Definitions in simple English

thread Noun

— A thread is a long, very thin, soft material used to join or make cloth. She pushed the thread through the hole in the needle. There were loose threads at the bottom of his pants. — A thread is a process. — A thread is a group of messages from a discussion on an Internet forum. — A thread is a structure that allows a screw to be fastened.

thread Verb

— If you thread something, then you make a string or thread out of it.

thread

— noun a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving — verb pass a thread through thread a needle — verb (= wind, meander, wander) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course the river winds through the hills the path meanders through the vineyards sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body — verb pass through or into thread tape thread film — verb remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string She had her eyebrows threaded — verb (= string, draw) thread on or as if on a string string pearls on a string the child drew glass beads on a string thread dried cranberries — noun (= screw thread) the raised helical rib going around a screw — noun (= train of thought) the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together I couldn't follow his train of thought he lost the thread of his argument — noun (= ribbon) any long object resembling a thin line a mere ribbon of land the lighted ribbon of traffic from the air the road was a grey thread a thread of smoke climbed upward

Synonyms thread synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as thread?

thread English » English

string yarn filament cord rope wire fibre line twine fiber cotton strand ribbon vein tie weave warp train of thought string together screw thread lace knot fibril draw clue band wool woof wind wander tissue stripe streak slip row rootlet pierce needle meander jet braid zigzag way vine twist turnbuckle trickle tread threads thread a needle

Topics thread topics

What do people use thread to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with cloth
Work and occupation Occupation Working with cloth

Spinning thread
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Language and thought Communication Say

Talk about a subject
Work and occupation Occupation Working with water

Plumber

Conjugation thread conjugation

How do you conjugate thread?

thread · verb

Examples thread examples

How do I use thread in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I lost the thread of his argument.
I don't like sewing because I can't thread the needle.
She sews with a needle and thread.
Which is best, white thread or red thread?
I started this thread.
It's not easy to thread a needle.
His life is hanging by a thread.
There's no red thread.
Be careful that the thread doesn't break.
I need thread to sew on this button.
Please give me a spool of white thread.
Wherever the needle goes, the thread goes too.
Do you have needle and thread?
Have you got needle and thread?
If you'll get a needle and thread, I'll sew your button on.
I'll thread the needle for you.
So fine was the thread that no frame could be found to weave it upon, nor would any weaver undertake to make one.
This thread is thinner than a human hair.
The silkworm is spinning a thread.

Movie subtitles

You think your life line would be as tough as silk thread!
But it only works when you believe, because once you pull that thread, it just turns into nothing right in your hands.
I hope they'll know what fear means. I hope they'll love and find it's hanging on a thread.
My existence is hanging by a thread.
And a needle and thread.
Seems like you have a loose thread.
I've only got blue thread.
For years I have endeavored to break through the veil which shrouded him and at last I have seized a thread and followed it to Moriarity himself.
This Pletnyov is a good young man, yet he's trying to tear the invisible thread.
An invisible thread. You understand?
An invisible thread, like a cobweb, comes from the heart of His Imperial Majesty, Tsar Alexander the Third and etc. And etc.
And it reaches out to everything, that thread.
Only the politicians, the Yids and some Russians, bribed by that sly English queen, do their best to tear the thread wherever they can.
On and on wound the poor thread that had once been our drive, and finally there was Manderley.
It looks like a bacterial thread, but it's actually synthetic.
It's just a thread.
I'm afraid that won't work, unless you have a needle and thread.
First, we take a sample of the thread.
I've got butter, fruit, green thread and go to the library.
His life is hang by a thread, but he thinks about profit!
So far I haven't any thread to string them together.
This gentleman is our thread and I think I shall start with Lady Penrose. But Lady Penrose is dead.
The dresses have to be different, yet similar, with a common thread.
Hullo, Silk Thread.
Believe it or not, Silk Thread, a real collector's item.
You can wind some thread around it so it will fit you when you get home.
Didn't you sew his collar with white thread, Aunt Polly?
That thread's black.
She has bad eyes so it takes one or two hours for her to thread a needle.
On and on wound the poor thread that had once been our drive, and finally, there was Manderley.
Even if they stole it, they wouldn't know to pull the silk thread.
Pulling the thread will turn it into a fan, right?
A bow of needles and two rolls of white thread!
It's been tearing its own thread for a million years.
My stomach won't take wine, and you can kill me with a thread.

News and current affairs

Is it possible to discern a common thread to all of these developments?
Business can be the common thread that weaves positive change throughout the world.
But their unifying thread is youth, unemployment, and uncertainty about the future, as well as the suffocating state paternalism that underlies the wider malaise itself.
Pull one thread - the celibacy requirement for priests, for example - and the whole edifice comes crashing down.
MADRID - As Egyptians tensely awaited the results of their country's presidential elections, a thread of pessimism ran through the discourse of the young people and secular liberals who had brought down Hosni Mubarak in January 2011.
The thread running though all the stories of the prize winners is the concept of creativity: both individual creativity and creative environments.
There is, interestingly, a common thread running through all of these cases, as well as the 2008 crisis: financial sectors behaved badly and failed to assess creditworthiness and manage risk as they were supposed to do.
MADRID - Diplomacy is not having its finest hour nowadays. Quite the contrary: resistance to diplomatic solutions is a common thread in most of today's major conflicts.
A discussion thread on the case on Tianya, a popular Chinese Internet portal, was soon flooded with comments expressing bafflement and outrage at the verdict.
But its credibility now hangs by a thread.
The common thread in all of these achievements is old-fashioned diplomacy.
Quite the contrary: resistance to diplomatic solutions is a common thread in most of today's major conflicts.

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