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- English Word Thread Definition A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
- English Word Thread Definition A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
- English Word Thread Definition The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
- English Word Thread Definition Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
- English Word Thread Definition Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
- English Word Thread Definition To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
- English Word Thread Definition To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
- English Word Thread Definition To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
- English Word Thread-shaped Definition Having the form of a thread; filiform.
- English Word Threadbare Definition Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
- English Word Threadbare Definition Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
- English Word Threadbareness Definition The state of being threadbare.
- English Word Threaded Definition of Thread
- English Word Threaden Definition Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet.
- English Word Threader Definition A device for assisting in threading a needle.
- English Word Threader Definition A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
- English Word Threadfin Definition Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
- English Word Threadfish Definition The cutlass fish.
- English Word Threadfish Definition A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
- English Word Threadiness Definition Quality of being thready.