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thread::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | train of thought |
| Type of | thinking, thought, cerebration, thought process, intellection, mentation |
he lost the thread of his argument.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ribbon |
| Type of | physical object, object |
| Has types | blade |
| Derivation | thready |
from the air the road was a grey thread.
a thread of smoke climbed upward.
thread::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | screw thread |
| Type of | rib |
Examples of thread
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I provide the following link in reference to my earlier comments in this thread.
From the economist.com
Get the children to help cut fabric triangles and thread them onto garden twine.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Twitter was cluttered with shutdown jokes and a thread of shutdown pickup lines.
From the latimes.com
Maybe checking a message board thread while in bed before turning out the light?
From the techcrunch.com
At least when Joyce was working on Dubliners there was a thread to the chapters.
From the telegraph.co.uk
If the thread were in its original form it would make more sense to an outsider.
From the guardian.co.uk
This thread convinced me global warming is real and scientists are not mistaken.
From the guardian.co.uk
I'll start a game thread, and you all can keep it going in the comments section.
From the newsday.com
Thread ingredients alternately on skewers until all the ingredients are used up.
From the jsonline.com
- A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
- Weave: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
- Pass a thread through; "thread a needle"
- Ribbon: any long object resembling a thin line; "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"
- Remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string; "She had her eyebrows threaded"
- Train of thought: the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together; "I couldn't follow his train of thought"; "he lost the thread of his argument"
- In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest unit of processing that can be scheduled by an operating system. It generally results from a fork of a computer program into two or more concurrently running tasks. ...
- Thread is the name of a deadly phenomenon that appears throughout Anne McCaffrey's series of science-fiction novels about the fictional planet Pern. Thread are thin silver filaments of a space-borne mycorrhizoid spore that devours all organic matter that it touches. ...
- Denier is a unit of measure for the linear mass density of fibers. It is defined as the mass in grams per 9,000 meters. In the International System of Units the tex is used instead (see below). The denier is based on a natural standard: a single strand of silk is one denier. ...
