Thread and Sequence

thread

A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving.
- synonyms: yarn
Any long object resembling a thin line.
- usage: "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: ribbon
The connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together.
- usage: "I couldn't follow his train of thought"; "he lost the thread of his argument"
- synonyms: train of thought
The raised helical rib going around a screw.
- synonyms: screw thread

To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.
- usage: "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
- synonyms: weave, wind, meander, wander
Pass a thread through.
- usage: "thread a needle"
Remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string.
- usage: "She had her eyebrows threaded"
Pass through or into.
- usage: "thread tape"; "thread film"
Thread on or as if on a string.
- usage: "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"
- synonyms: string, draw

(n.) 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.
(v.t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
(v.t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
(v.t.) To form a thread or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life or of a discourse.
(n.) A filament, as of a flower or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

sequence

Serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern.
- usage: "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"
A following of one thing after another in time.
- usage: "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"
- synonyms: chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession
Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie.
- synonyms: episode
The action of following in order.
- usage: "he played the trumps in sequence"
- synonyms: succession
Several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys.

Arrange in a sequence.
Determine the order of constituents in.
- usage: "They sequenced the human genome"

(n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
(n.) Simple succession or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
(n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
(n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
(n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
(n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
(n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
(n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary