Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Tread   /trɛd/   Listen
Tread

verb
(past trod; past part. trodden; pres. part. treading)
1.
Put down or press the foot, place the foot.  Synonym: step.  "Step on the brake"
2.
Tread or stomp heavily or roughly.  Synonym: trample.
3.
Crush as if by treading on.
4.
Brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center.
5.
Apply (the tread) to a tire.
6.
Mate with.
noun
1.
A step in walking or running.  Synonyms: pace, stride.
2.
The grooved surface of a pneumatic tire.
3.
The part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground.
4.
Structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step.



Related searches:
tread down
tread on
tread-softly
tread-wheel
caterpillar tread
treadle


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Tread" Quotes from Famous Books



... had a boy, and he should grow to be a man, and another man should tread on his toes, and he should knock the other man down, and the other man should die, and they should hang my boy," rattled off Mr. Phillips in anything but a ...
— Three People • Pansy
... thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head. And we far away ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell
... was refreshing. Here and there an old woman kneeled at prayer, her face in her hands. Du Roy looked at his watch again. It was not yet a quarter past three. He took a seat, regretting that he could not smoke. At the end of the church near the choir; he could hear the measured tread of a corpulent man whom he had noticed when he entered. Suddenly the rustle of a gown made him start. It was she. He arose and advanced quickly. She did not offer him her hand and whispered: "I have only a few minutes. You must kneel near me ...
— Bel Ami • Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant
... work, yet with a kind of agonized clairvoyance they were conscious of all that Herter did. The same thought was in the minds of both young doctors. They exchanged impressions afterward. "He'll cut the boy's heart out and tread it underfoot!" ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... to follow the counsel of Horace, and dear as earnest labour was becoming, I still lacked method, a fixed goal towards which to move with firm tread in the seclusion to which ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com