Synonyms for thread

Grammar : Noun

Spell : thred

Phonetic Transcription : θrɛd

Top 10 synonyms for thread

Other synonyms for the word thread

Définition of thread

Origin : Old English þræd "fine cord, especially when twisted" (related to þrawan "to twist"), from Proto-Germanic *thrædus (cf. Middle Dutch draet, Dutch draad, Old High German drat, German Draht, Old Norse þraðr), from suffixed form of root *thræ- "twist" (see throw). Meaning "spiral ridge of a screw" is from 1670s. Threads, slang for "clothes" is 1926, American English.

noun a fine strand of twisted fibers
noun fiber

Example sentences :

Isn't it annoying when one can't pick up the thread of a conversation?
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

Minnie shook her head mysteriously, and bit a thread with a vague frown.
Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington

She only holds him by a thread; and if you draw it too tight (I know his temper) it'll snap.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

We now resume the thread of our narrative where Ney's journal left off.
Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka

She loved to spin, and no spider ever spun so fine a thread as she on her spinning wheel.
Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd

What Christian experience wants is thread, a vertebral column, method.
Extract from : « Pax Vobiscum » by Henry Drummond

And then outside the tent some little woods noise snaps the thread.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

Even sheer, fine handkerchiefs, warranted every thread linen!
Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell

Now bore a hole in the other end, in which insert the thread.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 3, April 16, 1870 » by Various

It's done with a needle and thread and a hair from the hoss's tail.
Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

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