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A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
  He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.
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A continued theme or idea.
Synonym: topic

All of these essays have a common thread.
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I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.
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(engineering Category:en:Engineering#THREAD) A screw thread.
A sequence of connections.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII:
  I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.
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- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 21:
  ‘Let him go on. Do not interrupt him. He cannot go back, and maybe could not proceed at all if once he lost the thread of his thought.’
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The line midway between the banks of a stream.
(computing Category:en:Computing#THREAD) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
(Internet Category:en:Internet#THREAD) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.
A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
(figurative) Composition; quality; fineness.
- 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
  A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread.
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long, thin and flexible form of material

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a theme or idea — see also common thread

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a screw thread — see screw thread

a sequence of connection

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the line midway between the banks of a stream

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(computing) a unit of execution

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(Internet) a series of messages

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thread (third-person singular simple present threads, present participle threading, simple past threaded or (archaic) thrid, past participle threaded or (archaic) thridden)Category:English lemmas#THREAD Category:English verbs#THREAD Category:English entries with incorrect language header#THREAD Category:Pages with entries#THREAD Category:Pages with 4 entries#THREAD

(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#THREAD) To put thread through.
thread a needleCategory:English terms with collocations#THREAD
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#THREAD) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
Synonym: navigate

I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight.
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- 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 266:
  The line to Uganda goes up the side of a slope in a series of S-bends, and as the telegraph wires follow the line, from below they look like a forest as they thread backwards and forwards about six times.
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- 1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:
  On the descent the line is often in cuttings; some are high, such as at Scarcroft, where a cut through firestone and fireclay was necessary, and near Bardsey, where the line threads a deep tree-lined gorge.
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- 2013 October 19, Ben Smith, BBC Sport:
  Picking the ball up in his own half, Januzaj threaded a 40-yard pass into the path of Rooney to slice Southampton open in the blink of an eye.
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To screw on; to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt.
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#THREAD) To remove (hair) using a thread.
How to thread your eyebrows and trim them
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To interweave as if with thread.
- 2010 April 1, Gayla Marty, Memory of Trees: A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 177:
  [...] the urban landscape threaded with parks and trees to the horizon. The enormous sky over that flat line dazzled clear blue or filled with towers of cumulus clouds.
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- 2014 June 30, G.B. Lindsey, Diana Copland, Libby Drew, Secrets of Neverwood: An Anthology, Carina Press, →ISBN:
  [...] dark hair threaded with gray pulled back from a face still beautiful in spite of clear evidence of the passage of time.
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- 2021 November 4, Steven Mithen, Land of the Ilich: Journey's into Islay's Past, Birlinn Ltd, →ISBN:
  [...] landscape threaded with rivers, roads, tracks, pathways and an airport runway; one peppered with villages, farms, crofts and distilleries. Visitors to Islay, especially those coming from densely populated urban areas, often mistakenly […]
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- 2023 May 2, Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls, Penguin, →ISBN, page 6:
  [...] dark hair threaded with early silver.
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