Threading and Thread

noun

• 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

verb

• 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.