thread
名词 n.
动词 v.
美 [θɾ̪̊ɛd]
英文释义
名词 n.
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A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
— Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.
- A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
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Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
— the threads of a spiderweb
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A slender stream of water.
— a thread of water
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- A screw thread.
- The continuing course of life; the thread of life.
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An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse.; A line of reasoning, sequence of ideas, or train of thought.
— I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying.
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An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse.; A continuing theme that modifies the whole discourse.
— All of these essays have a common thread.
- A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform.
- A sequence of connections.
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A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security.
— a life hanging by a thread
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The degree of fineness; quality; nature.
— A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread.
动词 v.
- To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
- To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
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To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
— to thread through narrow passages
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To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).; To cautiously make (one's way) through a precarious place or situation.
— He threaded his way through legal entanglements.
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To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
— And when the Miners by theſe Shafts or Adits do ſtrike or threed a Vein of any Metal […] then the Metal which is digged […] is called Oar […]
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To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
— [...] the urban landscape threaded with parks and trees to the horizon. The enormous sky over that flat line dazzled clear blue or filled with towers of cumulus clouds.
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To form a screw thread on or in (a bolt, hole, etc.).
— Coordinate term: tap
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To remove (facial hair) by way of a looped thread that is tightly wound in the middle.
— to thread your eyebrows and trim them
- To feed (a sewing machine or otherwise a projecting or exposing mechanism, such as a projector, a camera, etc.) with film.
- To pass (a film or tape) through a projector, recorder, etc. so as to correct its path.
- Of boiling syrup: To form a threadlike stream when poured from a spoon.
词形变化
词汇关系
衍生词
Abalakov thread
brahminical thread
downthread
golden thread
gold thread
goldthread
green thread
hang by a thread
hang on by a thread
hyperthreaded
interthread
life thread
lifethread
lose the thread
megathread
microthread
misthread
multithread
nanothread
needle-and-thread grass
nun's thread
packthread
Pagenstecher thread
permathread
pick up the threads
pick up the threads of
prethread
protothread
sister's thread
subthread
threadbare
thread bug
thread count
threaden
threader
threadfin
threadfish
threadful
Threadgold
threadish
threadjack
threadjacker
threadjacking
thread lace
thread-legged bug
threadless
threadlet
threadlike
threadlock
threadlocker
thread-locking fluid
threadly
threadmaker
threadmaking
threadmill
thread mode
thread necromancy
thread needle
thread of life
thread of thought
thread-paper
thread pool
thread-safe
threadsafe
thread snake
threadtail
threadwork
threadworm
thready
thrill
unthread
upthread
cross-thread
multithreaded
rethread
threadability
threadable
threaded
thread the needle
词源
词源 1
From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola dreade (“thread”), Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), Cimbrian draat (“string, thread”), Dutch draad (“thread, wire”), German Draht (“thread, wire”), Luxembourgish Drot (“wire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish tråd (“thread, wire”), Faroese tráður (“thread”), Icelandic þráður (“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.
Cognates
Cognate with Yola dreade (“thread”), Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), Cimbrian draat (“string, thread”), Dutch draad (“thread, wire”), German Draht (“thread, wire”), Luxembourgish Drot (“wire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish tråd (“thread, wire”), Faroese tráður (“thread”), Icelandic þráður (“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.
词源 2
From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola dreade (“thread”), Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), Cimbrian draat (“string, thread”), Dutch draad (“thread, wire”), German Draht (“thread, wire”), Luxembourgish Drot (“wire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish tråd (“thread, wire”), Faroese tráður (“thread”), Icelandic þráður (“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.
Cognates
Cognate with Yola dreade (“thread”), Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), Cimbrian draat (“string, thread”), Dutch draad (“thread, wire”), German Draht (“thread, wire”), Luxembourgish Drot (“wire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish tråd (“thread, wire”), Faroese tráður (“thread”), Icelandic þráður (“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.
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