thread: meaning and definitions

Fine cord of a fibrous material, such as cotton or flax, made of two or more filaments twisted together and used in needlework and the weaving of cloth.

A piece of such cord.

A thin strand, cord, or filament of natural or manufactured material.

Something that suggests the fineness or thinness of such a strand, cord, or filament: a thread of smoke.

Something that suggests the continuousness of such a strand, cord, or filament: lost the thread of his argument.

A helical or spiral ridge on a screw, nut, or bolt.

Computer Science A portion of a program that can run independently of and concurrently with other portions of the program.

Computer Science A set of posts on a newsgroup, composed of an initial post about a topic and all responses to it.

Slang Clothes.

To pass one end of a thread through the eye of (a needle, for example).

To pass (something) through in the manner of a thread: thread the wire through the opening.

To pass a tape or film into or through (a device): thread a film projector.

To pass (a tape or film) into or through a device.

To connect by running a thread through; string: thread beads.

To make one's way cautiously through: threading dark alleys.

To make (one's way) cautiously through something.

To occur here and there throughout; pervade: "More than 90 geologic faults thread the Los Angeles area” ( Science News).

To machine a thread on (a screw, nut, or bolt).

To make one's way cautiously: threaded through the shoals and sandbars.

To proceed by a winding course.

To form a thread when dropped from a spoon, as boiling sugar syrup.