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Synonyms for thread

Grammar : Noun
Spell : thred
Phonetic Transcription : θrɛd

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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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