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noun
1.
A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving.  Synonym: yarn.
2.
Any long object resembling a thin line.  Synonym: ribbon.  "The lighted ribbon of traffic" , "From the air the road was a grey thread" , "A thread of smoke climbed upward"
3.
The connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together.  Synonym: train of thought.  "He lost the thread of his argument"
4.
The raised helical rib going around a screw.  Synonym: screw thread.
verb
(past & past part. threaded; pres. part. threading)
1.
To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.  Synonyms: meander, wander, weave, wind.  "The path meanders through the vineyards" , "Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
2.
Pass a thread through.
3.
Remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string.
4.
Pass through or into.  "Thread film"
5.
Thread on or as if on a string.  Synonyms: draw, string.  "The child drew glass beads on a string" , "Thread dried cranberries"



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"Thread" Quotes from Famous Books



... been suspecting that her money had been the chief inducement which led him to seek her hand, and now her worse suspicions were confirmed, and the last thread ...
— Sowing and Reaping • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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... I remember very vividly her quick color and a certain roguish smile. I spread my adoration at her feet, fresh and frank. I wanted to write to her. Indeed I wanted to devote all my being to her. I begged hard, but there was someone called Auntie who had to be considered, an Atropos for that thread of romance. ...
— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells
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... money enough, and that you were already on the journey. If then, as I think probable, the facts are quite contrary to those assertions of Cardinal Gaddi, reply to me without delay upon the receipt of this letter; for I will undertake to gather up the fallen thread, and have the promised money given you by this ...
— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini
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... and pans. The Greens Committee practically live there in the summer. You see them prowling round in groups, encouraging each other with merry cries as they fill their sacks. Well, I'm going to fool them today. I'm going to drive an old ball which is just hanging together by a thread. It'll come to pieces when they pick ...
— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse
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... of a politician who had acquired a mannerism of fingering a button on his coat while talking to an audience. On one occasion some friends surreptitiously cut the particular button off, and the result was that the speaker when he stood up to address the audience lost the thread of his discourse. ...
— Talks on Talking • Grenville Kleiser
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