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thread   (TTS Sound)

The noun thread has 4 senses

• thread, yarn -- (a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving)


• ribbon, thread -- (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")


• train of thought, thread -- (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")


• screw thread, thread -- (the raised helical rib going around a screw)

The verb thread has 5 senses

• weave, wind, thread, 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")


• thread -- (pass a thread through; "thread a needle")


• thread -- (remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string; "She had her eyebrows threaded")


• thread -- (pass through or into; "thread tape"; "thread film")


• string, thread, 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")