Threads and Thread

threads

A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving.
- synonyms: thread, 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, thread
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, thread
The raised helical rib going around a screw.
- synonyms: screw thread, thread
Informal terms for clothing.
- synonyms: togs, duds

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, thread, meander, wander
Pass a thread through.
- usage: "thread a needle"
- synonyms: thread
Remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string.
- usage: "She had her eyebrows threaded"
- synonyms: thread
Pass through or into.
- usage: "thread tape"; "thread film"
- synonyms: thread
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, thread, draw

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