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How to pronounce threads in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms duds, togs
Type of habiliment, vesture, wear, article of clothing, wearable, clothing

Examples of threads

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Yaya threads the ball through for Balotelli, who flicks it out right for Milner.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Sadly, most modern men don't have a bespoke tailor to whip them up fine threads.
From the hecklerspray.com
Dig deeper, beneath the basic plot line, and there are many threads to the tale.
From the stltoday.com
Mycorrhizae fungi form fine threads around the root zone in a symbiotic fashion.
From the ocregister.com
If your recipe calls for powdered saffron, crush threads immediately before use.
From the buffalonews.com
While none named a pumpkin or Oktoberfest beer, there were a few common threads.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The skinny fries and threads of onion are piled high on the plate, irresistible.
From the orlandosentinel.com
This release, says Shuttleworth, is intended to drive three threads of activity.
From the techcrunch.com
Has sharp threads that cut into a material such as sheet metal, plastic or wood.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • 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. ...